The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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.

Feeling grateful to breathe a new day. Gratitude is a way to submit to the flow of life.

Don't wait for life to happen

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.