A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations,

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

My name is Raquel Welch. I am here for visual effects, and I have two of them.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.