I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

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.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.