Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Francis Wright

The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design'd,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

Stephen King

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

Ovid

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

John Lennon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

Peter Diamandis

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower