To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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.

Sanctification of souls!

We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong.

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.