O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

She who heals herself, heals others.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.