O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Music is love in search of a word.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Music is love searching for a word.

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Water is essential to life! It's also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

It is better to be kind than right.