Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Italian Proverb

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Channing Tatum

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Source Unknown

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

Hilarie Burton

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Christopher McCandless

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Glenn Beck