If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

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.

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

Great floods have flown From simple sources.