O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.