The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

Love has not a value, though we treasure it dear, it's worth more than gold, that's why I keep you so near.

Seize time by the forelock.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.