I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Albert Einstein

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Rand Paul

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Ricki Lake

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Stephen King

I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the mature person: When it is over, what will my life have been about? First as Martin Buber taught, life is meeting. We come alive only when we relate to others. Secondly, we are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great dramatic leap in results. Finally, we are here to finish god's labors. One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly two thousand years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...

Neil Gaiman

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton