To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.

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.

Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit.

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.