The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

A fast tongue is a sign of a slow brain

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.