Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Love. It doesn't change for any person to any person. It evolves.

The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

My hatred gives me strength.

It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.