I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Nik Wallenda

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Virginia Woolf

Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world. And the truth is, I don't have to.

Lady Gaga

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. are the sole objects of all legitimate government.

Thomas Jefferson

yeah this could actually be a dope rap beat

Leslie Hochsztein

I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up

Rodney Dangerfield

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Arthur Henderson