Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.