Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better.

Radicals can be found in any environment.