The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Life is mostly pain and struggle

Achievement comes from within. If you don’t feel it, it won’t make any difference what anyone else thinks.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Nothing ages like laziness.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally