I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

Ryokan

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Albert Einstein

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Victor Hugo

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.

William Jefferson Clinton

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Oscar Levant

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

John Green

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.

Gellu Naum

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Truman Capote

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Thomas Dunn English

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Dave Matthews