Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.