Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Change is uncomfortable, but it’s helpful!

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton. Over the weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl. The baby girl will not confirm or deny whether she's running in 2056.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks