My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...

Kahlil Gibran

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

Kenneth Branagh

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Donald Cargill

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Robert Redford

I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.

Brett Favre

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.

Terry Goodkind

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Dr. Dre

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

John Green

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

Tallulah Bankhead

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Pope John Paul II

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The CrackUp