Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.