My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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.

There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

Life is too short not to experiment.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.