Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.