The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Bashar al-Assad

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Tony Campolo

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Chuck Jones

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Evita Peron

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

Elvis Presley

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Russell Banks

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Christopher Reeve

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung