So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

The seeds we sow today will grow to serve as shades for weary travellers tomorrow

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

How can a person live without love?

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.