Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

I don't get no respect

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.