Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

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.

See Time has touched me gently in his race And left no odious furrows in my face.

Life is too long to know C++ well.

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.