Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

Sheryl Crow

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Mao Zedong

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

David Bailey

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Walt Whitman

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Veda Upanishads

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

Louis Pasteur

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

James Russell Lowell