Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

When I was your age, television was called books.

A star does not need words to tell the world what it can do

life is unfair, if you are weak, your out

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

I think if I'm 40, and I don't have any kids, and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary, like Jesus is my baby.

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.