This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.