Silence is more musical than any song.

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.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.