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

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

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.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.