I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?