Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

V. S. Naipaul

Beginnings start without shade, Thinner than minnows. The live grass whirls with the sun, Feet run over the simple stones, There's time enough. Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Miguel de Cervantes

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Timothy Murphy

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

James Madison

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Tom Petty

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Chloe Sevigny

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Monica Baldwin

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Khalil Gibran