All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Rodney Dangerfield

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

John Charles Polanyi

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Hannah Arendt

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

Laura Bush

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Wilfred Owen

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Sigmund Freud

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

John Drinkwater

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell