The imagination never dies.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

I hope all you wish for comes to you, And you become who you're hoping to be.I know you will prosper in all you do, So promise you'll remember me.

The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.