I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Resist much, obey little.

Peace is always beautiful.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

Fear of trouble present and future often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

You need to dream nicer dreams. I come from a world that is a much nicer dream.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.