Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

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.

I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!

What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

I know nothing and my heart aches

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.