Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing.Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle.A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth.Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.

Coco J. Ginger

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

David Dinkins

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

Bill Walton

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

Richard Baxter

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest

William Shakespeare

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Stanislav Grof

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

Time is money, but money isn't time

Rosen Topuzov