People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

William Butler Yeats

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.

J. Richard Gott III

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

W. Somerset Maugham

I never look back, I look forward.

Steffi Graf

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian Proverb

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman

That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.

Virginia Woolf

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Jackie Robinson

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser