The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

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.

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

The Spirit calls, I must do the Masters will.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.