Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

I want to be a role model.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.