I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.