For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Ralph Fiennes

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Elie Wiesel

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

Michelle Bachelet

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

Mike McCready

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Gloria Steinem

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Ronald Reagan

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

Hilary Swank

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy