Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Science grows like a weed every year.

Kary Mullis

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Pete Seeger

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Bible

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

Terry Pratchett

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Carol Ann Duffy

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Orson Scott Card

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush