You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.