The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.