America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.