Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Morihei Ueshiba

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.

Citizen Cope

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. I John

Bible

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Craig Breedlove

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Gertrude Stein

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Jeanette Winterson