Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Peter Gabriel

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

Alexander Pope

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Halle Berry

I were but little happy, if I could say how much

William Shakespeare

It's interesting, in light of Emerson's warning that faith cannot be created but must grow, that the seventh principle, which affirms our reverence for the interdependent web of all existence, was the one part of the purposes and principles that wasn't debated across the continent, that wasn't hammered out in a long and exhaustive process. I am told it came to the floor late in the Columbus, Ohio, General Assembly and it was unanimously accepted virtually without debate.

David E. Bumbaugh

The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

Van Jones

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Liv Tyler