Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

John Keats

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Erica Jong

I installed a skylight in my apartment...The people who live above me arefurious!

Steven Wright

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Socrates

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.

Christopher Lasch

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Imelda Marcos

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Wayne Dyer

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Christiane Amanpour