Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition growing certain and A wait within that certainty, a rest In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake. Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence

Wallace Stevens

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tom Vilsack

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

John Milton

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Lec, More Unkempt Thou

To be pure and holy in all things is a necessary characteristic of the unenslaved mind.

Abdu'l-Baha

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

Steven Wright

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Elbert Hubbard

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Barbara Marciniak

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)