The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

John Lennon

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Joyce Brothers

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

John N. Mitchell

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

Bernard Mandeville

?By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

Steve Maraboli

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Harri Holkeri