We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

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.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

God is preparing you for greater things. He's going to take you further than you thought possible, so don't be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

There's life after acting.