I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Hypatia

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Deepak Chopra

There is a deep truism of Love, that it is colour blind.

E.J. George

No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.

Adelaide Proctor

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Ronald Reagan

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Anon.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Criss Jami