Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Henry Van Dyke

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru

Saat kita dibenci, itu berarti kita menonjol di antara yang lain.

Yoshichi Shimada

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Seann William Scott

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Proverb

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

Adam Schiff

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli