The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

There's something in everyone only they know.

The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know