When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Silence is more musical than any song.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.