Forget your opponents; always play against par.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

James Broughton

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.

John Cusack

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Henry David Thoreau

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

Thomas Jefferson

Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.

Sandra Chami Kassis

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Diane Abbott

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Roger Wicker

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Phil McGraw

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh