No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

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.

How does "Let go and let God" measure up against Scripture? Remember, the test isn't what sounds deep, what sounds holy, or even what makes sense to us. For the Christian, the test is Scripture.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

What do I tell the pilots to do?

I’m secretly hoping for the full five.

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.