All writing is a form of prayer.

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.

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Your love is the platform for my passion manifesto.

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Leading a nation requires sacrifice

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

To be too busie gets contempt.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.