So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

I swear, I’ve never met any demon as annoying as you are.” “You haven’t met my youngest brother.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.