The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Northrop Frye

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

Rodrigo Santoro

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.

Taylor Momsen

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Andre Gide

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Sanaya Roman

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles W. Eliot