In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

It was men, not God, who had done those things...

She consumes me with her eyes, her fiery touch, and the ways in which she loves me.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

Under no circumstances should you lose hope.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.