Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.