For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.

I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

People are racist to us, sir, so why can't we be racist to rangas?

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.