In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Peace is always pleasant, always kind.

Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

I was never hurt by what anybody said about my clothes, because I dress to please myself. If somebody doesn’t like what I’m wearing, it’s their problem, not mine

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.