Better good manners than good looks.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Jerry Gillies

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Robert Morgan

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Ben Okri

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

Luck is being ready for the chance.

J. Frank Doble

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Edmond de Goncourt

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Wallace Stevens

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Arthur Godfrey

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Dejan Stojanovic