Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

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.

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

Remember: Let's look for ways to take *care* of each other rather than look for ways to take *advantage* of each other.

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

You have to learn to accept your body. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don't feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?