Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you

I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me.

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.