I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

They danced by the light of the moon.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

If I ever die, I want it to be cause I got hit by a car saving a kid.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

Please waste time just playing with your kids!

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.