All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

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

John Milton

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Benjamin Franklin

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Bjork

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

Yet nothing can to nothing fall,Nor any place be empty quite;Therefore I think my breast hath allThose pieces still, though they be not unite;And now, as broken glasses showA hundred lesser faces, soMy rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,But after one such love, can love no more.

John Donne

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

James Earl Jones

I've had dreams about tricks.

Shaun White

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Osler

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman