My favoured temple is in an humble heart.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

I don't feel good.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.

There were miracles long before Christianity.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Faith knows nothing of external guarantees -- that is, of course, faith as an original experience of the life of the Spirit. It is only in the secondary esoteric sphere of the religious life that we find guarantees and a general attempt to compel faith. To demand guarantees and proofs of faith is to fail to understand its very nature by denying the free, heroic act which it inspires. In really authentic and original religious experience, to the existence of which the history of the human spirit bears abundant witness, faith springs up without the aid of guarantees and compelling proofs, without any external coercion or the use of authority.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene ma per star meglio, sto qui.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon..

The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."