Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Believe in yourself, not in your critics.

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

Don't be scared. I'll look after you.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

When a new book is published, read an old one.