Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Literature is a state of culture poetry is a state of grace before and after culture.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind contentment grace the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

And so at the age of thirty I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources had trained me with skill and patience and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I would love to continue in music with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens I will bow down gracefully raise my kids and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

But when women are moved and lend help when women who are by nature calm and controlled give encouragement and applause when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love then it is invincible.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights protection and recognition.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course everyone wants to own copyrights.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction behavior attire grace learning and all their words azimuth only at love respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

G is Grace the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

That is the saving grace of humor if you fail no one is laughing at you.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies and that's where I found my material in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired you don't come home your best self.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.

Spiritually good people pure in heart who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day in sickness and in health with immeasurable grace and profit.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.