In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

All life forms add their own colour in the world. It is important we embrace all the colours with equal value.

Many stories magnify a fact.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.

There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.