The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Helen Keller

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Naguib

Lying is the new truth.

B. Cameron Lee

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

Evel Knievel

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Arthur Miller

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

Michael Schenker

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Kin Hubbard

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

Loni Anderson

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Steve Forbes