Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

A smile is a sunny spirit.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled, " he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

As for 'Independence Day, ' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

Some people handle sweets better.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.