The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.