Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

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.

What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.