Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.