Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

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.

Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?

The Present day optimists invent a lieand the pessimists hide the truth

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.