Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.