Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

I cannot help, but when danger is at hand remember always that I am here to stand -- or fall -- with you.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.