Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

Robert Moog

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Edward W. Howe

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Thomas Carlyle

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

Justina Chen

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

John Pearson

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Ville Valo

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Diane Wakoski

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Tony Snow

Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo DaVinci

Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.

Bhagavad Gita