You are the daughter of the sea,oregano's first cousin.Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;cook, your blood is quick as the soil.Everything you do is full of flowers, rich with the earth.Your eyes go out toward the water, and the waves rise;your hands go out to the earth and the seeds swell;you know the deep essence of water and the earth,conjoined in you like a formula for clay.Naiad: cut your body into turquoise pieces,they will bloom resurrected in the kitchen.This is how you become everything that lives.And so at last, you sleep, in the circle of my armsthat push back the shadows so that you can rest -vegetables, seaweed, herbs: the foam of your dreams.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Jerry Costello

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Beth Henley

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Samuel Butler

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Kin Hubbard

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Jill Clayburgh

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Rita Dove

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Eric Bana

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Oscar Wilde