The heart has reasons which reason does not understand.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. . . . . We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything.

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Talent works, genius creates.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.