Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.

In life, every moment and everything, is miraculous because life itself is a dance of a miracle.

No dream, no journey planed, no goals to dream for and achieve

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Markets are conversations.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

I have no sympathy for the people who went to Charlie Sheen's show and were disappointed. That didn't seem very organized! That guy's all over the map!

What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.