“ The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson
“ Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Helen Dunmore
“ For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Buddha
“ On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. David Bowie
“ I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy
“ Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates
“ I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. Jennifer Aniston
“ The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and th… John Sherman Cooper
“ I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place w… Sam Shepard
“ Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw
“ God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart
“ Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. Thomas Merton
“ People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. Lisa See
“ If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
