There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.