But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side

A leader may lead, but you have to follow to reach the destination.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.