For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

....he thinks about his boyhood, and he mourns his vanished youth -Now, who would live his life again, or face it? Tell the truth.I am mighty glad my boyhood and my youth are far away-I am in the straight for Fifty

Henry Lawson, When there is Trou

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Oscar Wilde

All that is not given is lost.

Rabindranath Tagore

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Jared Polis

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

C.S. Lewis

There is a wisdom of the Head, and... there is a wisdom of the Heart.

Charles Dickens

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Jackie Chan

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

John Burroughs

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen