Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?