There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.

Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.