If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.