To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Jodi Picoult

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Billy Corgan

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Mamie Sypert Burns

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

Christopher Earle

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Orson Scott Card

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Jared Leto

During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

Rodney Dangerfield

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.

Elizabeth I

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Jane Austen

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Muriel Barbery