And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

Satan knows your name but he calls you by your sin.

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

You can criticize Trump and his wealth all day long, but you can't say he hasn't worked. You can say that about the Clintons.