After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.