was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

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.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.