If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

The essence is HIS presence.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Your sorrow is yours--truly yours. No one can borrow or share it. No one can carry it for you.

Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.

Bit naïve, isn’t it? So much for the Age of Enlightenment.”“I grew up believing in dragons, ” du Bois pointed out.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.