These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

The Bible is the voice of God in print.