He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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.

BE an accomplisher against all odds.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!