Works of genius are the first things in the world.

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.

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

Are you talking to her or me, because I just can't tell

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.