Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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.

Only God can satisfy and set us free.

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.