I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

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.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

We find what's in our own heads.

If you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now.

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.