There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

William Carlos Williams

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Everything begins with an idea.

Earl Nightingale

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

Henri Matisse

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Anne Ridler

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Mark Twain

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Al Gore

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

Camile Souza

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel