Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.