I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

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.

Everyday nature is drawing a new picture just to keep herself alive and pretty.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

You will be safe in His arms 'cause the hands that hold the world are holding your heart.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.