O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.