Find your place in life, and GROW!

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Leland Stanford

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

Ta ta and adios. Or, as Saint Peter said to me with a sly wink, when I told him I was on my last-round trip to Paradise: See you later, Alligator.

Kurt Vonnegut

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Thomas Hood

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Scott Turow

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Don King

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

T. D. Jakes

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Leo Tolstoy