I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

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.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

With strong will, you can soar high on eagle’s wings.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.