Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

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.

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Politics and football don't mix.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.