pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

To find happiness, love is the only way.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

Laughter scares off lust.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.