To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.

Look for a GOOD NEWS story to tell. This is much better than gossip in increasing morale.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Jesus didn't teach people to kill.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.