Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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.

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

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Without the spirit of gratitude, no amount of blessings would activate the feeling of happiness in one's mind.

Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body.

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.