Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

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.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

You can start now and make a new great ending.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.