Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.
I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.
A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.