All live to die, and rise to fall.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

May you find love, joy and hope at Christmas and every day of your life.

Wisdom comes easy to me today. The Universal Intelligence and the Cosmic Power, Empower me with wisdom each day of my life. Thanks BE to God. _nickc

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

90 percent of the people in the world make their decisions based on fear.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.