The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

THE EASIEST AND MORE PLEASANT PATH TO SUCCESS IS BY ADDING VALUE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.

Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.