The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

Now the last red ray is gone; Now the twilight shadows hie.

In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go Back to the same old lives again.

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

If we continuously protest and complain about our life then we actually create barriers in the manifestation process and the natural flow of life.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.