While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realis

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.