How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

It is better to be positive than negative.

Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

I have always followed the most passionate course.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.