There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Poetry fights against the injustice of this world. Poetry's truths are ageless.

Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.