Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Thomas Carlyle

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Orlando A. Battista

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, "Time",

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Saint Augustine

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Pablo Picasso

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Shirley MacLaine

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,

Sadi Gulistan

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jessica Savitch