Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

J. Ruth Gendler

He (Bob Marley) had this idea, it was kind of a virologist idea, he believed he could cure racism and hate, literally cure it by injecting music and love into people's lives. One day he was scheduled to perform at a peace concert, gunmen came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. Somebody asked him why. He said the people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.

Bob Marley, Movie I Am Legend st

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Alexi Giannoulias

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

David Suzuki

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Todays military rejects include tomorrows hard core unemployed.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Kurt Vonnegut

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Jean Paul

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Suzanne Vega