Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart.

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...