I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational most dedicated most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Hope springs eternal even in politics.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is but always To be Blest.

By the time I got home at night my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right there aren't any strings at all.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home you might be a redneck.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s I can look 1970s hippie-chic or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Now when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says look people have learned from history.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings not count the years.

I've done an informal anecdotal survey about marriage and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

So many people have said that to me that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa and what this situation brings out in her a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Michael has a connection with children just like Mickey Mouse does and he brings happiness to them and joy.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.