I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

George A. Smith

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

Diane Ackerman

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Edward Steichen

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. Philippians 1:9

Bible

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

H. P. Blavatsky

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.

Ricky Schroder

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

L. P. Jacks

The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

Charlotte Smith

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Rosie O'Donnell