We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Wallace Stevens

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Rodney Dangerfield

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama XIV

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?

Ted Simon, Jupiter

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Ben Carson

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Ray Stevenson

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Wilbur Smith

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Ray Charles