Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.