I my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I my hurt, and even it, a little, for now I could write a death, a loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

Chinese Proverb

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

Geezer Butler

It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of To

The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.

Steve Maraboli

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.

Debra Messing

The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

Oscar Wilde

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Calvin Klein

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Sir Winston Churchill

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson