Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born.

Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.