You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time. . . . It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.