As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

He who is good is happy.

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.

Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.