What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

Dylan Thomas

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Gerald R. Ford

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Ani DiFranco

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Margaret Stohl

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

Lea Michele

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Helen Rowland

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Clifton Fadiman