Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

be the kiss in my hairthat no one seesmove, when i movesigh, when i sigh...be that line from a poemthat i hold in my eyes.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.

I read therefore I write.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.