What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.

Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.

It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.