I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Facts are never as salient as feelings.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.