He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

A Man Staying At Home All Day And Doing Nothing Could Be Worse Than A Psycho Woman.

What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.