I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

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.

Skeptics are never deceived.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.