Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Jesus Christ is the Father of Fatherless.

He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything, it was for a manto shut up.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.