Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

My father was one of ten children.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

I'm going to live my life like I've got one life to live.