In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

In the midst of the adversity, we can still strive by the grace of God

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.