Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.

The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.

I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.