Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Boris Sokoloff

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there.

Kurt Vonnegut

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

E. M. Cioran

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Ou

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

George Eliot

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

David Cameron

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Jonah Hill