He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

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.

The funny thing is, in reality we all just presume that life is going to happen when we wake up in the morning. What if it didn’t?

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

I've crashed my car three times.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.