The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Try not to find love or fall in love. Instead become a person who attracts love.

Democracy is about the dialogue

She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.