In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

Celso Cukierkorn

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Theresa

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Novalis Hardenberg

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Liam Neeson

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick the Great

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Justin Sane

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

James Laughlin

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Jimmy Buffett

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

I design some of my own clothes now.

Kiernan Shipka