He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Where are we really going? Always home.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s. . . Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.