Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.