Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

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.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

There is no success without failure and losses.

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.