O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Just watching an actor in front you really provokes you in such a sudden, unexpected way. You can't ask for anything more from someone you're working with than that.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.