We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

This life is like a game, so you better play it right!

You all saw him - he had a gun.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

When someone close to you dies, move seats.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.