I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Diane Ackerman

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Imelda Staunton

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Roberto Cavalli

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson

When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.

Steve Maraboli

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

W. G. Sebald

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Rob Zombie