All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.

It's not just about losing the weight, it's about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there. -Steve Maraboli

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.