The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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 stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

Celebrate your journey of life.

I can never get used to not having you around Nanay. I travel the world but I can't find anybody like you!

Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.