And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Siegfried Sassoon

We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum, The Storyteller'

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Rick Perry

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann Broch

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Tori Amos

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Brian Mulroney

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Mack R. Douglas