Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear, do not fear, she will be.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.

The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I want to build a course my mum can enjoy.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.