It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Ken Hudgins

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Vladimir Lenin

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.21369,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

David Frum, from, October 12, 20

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred Allen

Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.

Coco J. Ginger

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

J.K. Rowling

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

John Glenn

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Harold Coffin

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt