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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
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Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
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When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.
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I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
