Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

Alex Meraz

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Xun Zi

Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

C. Neil Strait

Leap and the net will appear

John Burroughs

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Margaret Cho

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Charlotte Bronte

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

David Letterman

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Iris Murdoch