Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.

Orson Scott Card

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Thomas Szasz

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

Source Unknown

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Hugo Black

Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.

Matthew Ashford

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton