I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

My watch is three hours fast, and I can't fix it. So I'm goingto move to New York.

Steven Wright

Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

John Green

Canada's the best country in the world.

Justin Bieber

I'm terrible with patience.

Katherine Heigl

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Aldous Huxley

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

Libba Bray

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Chinua Achebe

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- and another woman to help him forget them.

Helen Rowland