O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

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.

A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

I just want to make people smile.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.