Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Mikhail Bakunin

My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon, Interview, KFRC RKO

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Edward Atkinson

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

Joel Osteen

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

David Duchovny

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep is better than medicine.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Marvin J. Ashton

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Milton Avery