One day in the country Is worth a month in town

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap.― Jean Racine, Phèdre

...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?