When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Ted Nugent

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Arthur E. Morgan

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

Martin Feldstein

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

John Ciardi

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of little guy or silent majority rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

Christopher Hitchens

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm X

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.

Toba Beta

We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)...and says, Here, you can go.

Steven Wright