Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.

Patrick Henry

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

Larry Bird

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.

Harold Norse

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

Robert Buchanan

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Norma McCorvey

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Henry Fielding

I don't actually own a car.

Chris Martin

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson