Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Anne Wilson Schaef

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Don Van Vliet

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

John Hurt

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Mike Murdock

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Rosa Parks

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

William Scranton

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

Rod Dreher