The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

H. L. Mencken

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Seigneur De SaintEvremond

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Wendell Pierce

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

Evanescence

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Adolph Harnack

One word can change your life forever.I love youI hate youThink about it

Alan Macmillan Orr

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazon Aquino

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander