Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

The loving are the daring.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.

The only way to have great customers is to be one.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.