A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders.

Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.