We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

B.K.S. Iyengar

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Cher

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Garrett Hardin

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Elias Canetti

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.

Katherine Center

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina