What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Silence is more musical than any song.

There is only one happiness in life. To love, and to be loved

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

Where there is love there is pain.

When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.