He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

James Lane Allen

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Stevie Wonder

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make me too products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

Steve Jobs

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai Stevenson

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

James Dickey

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?

Christopher Hitchens

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln