He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.