The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

Abbe Pierre

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I washed mud, off of mud.

Steven Wright

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Alexandra Paul

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Robert Morgan

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.

Patrick Carman

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Branden

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

John Gay

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson