Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

George Herbert

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.

Ahmed Ben Bella

I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Shaun Prowdzik

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

Kesha

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

Steven Wright

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

James Fenimore Cooper