Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Mariel Hemingway

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Samuel Johnson

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.

Paul Hoffman

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Dilys Laing

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

Gilles Villeneuve

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Hart Crane

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Vladimir Lenin