The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

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.

Keep an open mind but a skeptical eye.

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see