The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;I hid my life to my despiteTill I could not bear to look at light:I dare not gaze upon her faceBut left her memory in each place;Where'er I saw a wild flower lieI kissed and bade my love good-bye.

John Clare

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil

William Shakespeare

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Tammy Wynette

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Louis Farrakhan

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Benjamin Carson

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein II

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Plato

Safe?' said Mr. Beaver. 'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe, but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

C.S. Lewis

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson