The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Huston Smith

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Max Lerner

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

John Ensign

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Mitch Albom

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Joe Carter

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Jimmy Breslin

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

Aldous Huxley