The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

What we value matters, we become what we are connected to.

You are my star and you have made me see, ” he tells her, “and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.