... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

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.

Music with all its subtlety has immense power to unite people, spread love and bring peace in the world!

It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.