Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

John Geddes

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Orson Scott Card

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance

Mark Twain

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Aaliyah

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Eric Hoffer

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

R. Kelly