Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.