Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Sometimes it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Antonio Porchia.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.

stick a fork in him, he's done.

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

Observe the opportunity.

Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.