We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Gerald F. Lieberman

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Helena Christensen

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Benjamin Disraeli

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

James T. Farrell

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Samuel Johnson

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Jackson Browne

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Phili