The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

It's interesting vocalizing something that is visual.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.