While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Doris Lessing

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Leonard Sweet

I'm still healthy as can be.

Darrell Royal

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Samuel Johnson

It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think.

J.K. Rowling

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

Jesse Ventura

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Belle Boyd

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Eli Ginzberg

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Warren Farrell