I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Thomas Fuller

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Criss Jami

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

Thomas Jane

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

Little Richard

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Johann von Goethe

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Bertrand Russell

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Source Unknown

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

Jack Schmitt