“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays its no good being a cabbage unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itsel...”

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”