Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.