One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!

Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you’re done. —T-SHIRT

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.