Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

There is divinity within every soul.

She blows kisses to the one who danced through her dreams and leaves a trail of moon dust on her heart...

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.