Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it..

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning..

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame..

The old Lena is dead..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame..

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..