And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.