To love, and all the heartache that weighs it down.To love, and all the heartbeats that lift it up.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.