I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

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Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Women read each other at a single glance.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

History: A distillation of rumor.