the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Carl Rowan

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Bolitho

If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.

Florence Williams

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

will.i.am

The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.

John W. Gardner

While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?

Melody Carlson

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

David Steinberg

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

T. S. Eliot

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Billy Graham