Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

Dee Prathia

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

John Barton

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

H. Allen Smith

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Lynn Margulis

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Marquis de Sade

In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth. Give thy love freely; do not count the cost; So beautiful a thing was never lostIn the long run.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In The Long

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Joe Scarborough

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Baker

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young