I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

Justina Chen

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Buddha

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Nancy Pelosi

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

John Abizaid

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Anna Wickham

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin