He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

A. R. Ammons

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lawrence Kasdan

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

Susan Sarandon

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

William Wordsworth

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Robert H. Schuller

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

Carrie Underwood

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Maria Mitchell