Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

The fish is the star of the plate.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.