I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Resist much, obey little.

Peace is always beautiful.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

The Show Must Go On!

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.