You embody all that I was ever able to concieve of beauty and fearlessness and strange purity. Therefore it is evident I do not see in you merely Count Emmerick's third sister, but, instead, that ageless lovable and loving woman long worshipped and sought everywhere in vain by all poets.

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

Stephen Richards

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.

Deb Caletti

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Logan P. Smith

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Colonel Harland Sanders

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Melvin R. Laird

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman