Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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.

Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet.

Let us see each other not through the eyes but through the heart and feel the joy of love.

You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.

just in case" is the curse of packing

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster