Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.