O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Feed your faith, starve your doubts.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Intimacy is a difficult art.