Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

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.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."