Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.

Terry Pratchett

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Tracy K. Smith

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

Joel Robuchon

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Mary Wortley Montagu

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Minnie Driver

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

Mark Wahlberg

We did not go out looking to build a cell tower.

Stephen Richards