Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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.

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.