Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Dale Carnegie

As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead.

Katha Upanishad

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Pearl Bailey

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

Don Van Vliet

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Charles Dudley Warner

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Herschel Walker

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

Emma Goldman

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Terry Pratchett

Behold the Child among his new-born blissesA six years' Darling of a pigmy size!See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,With light upon him from his father's eyes!See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,Some fragment from his dream of human life,Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimat

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Jackie Kennedy