The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

Her beauty is untouchable.

You are created with a purpose

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.