And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

the three major F's of life: FORGIVE, FORGET and move FORWARD

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

Im a believer in bipartisanship.

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.