He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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.

Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.