Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

Your choices run out when your money does.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you?

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.