Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

Oscar Wilde

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui-bian

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Kevin Costner

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dee Dee Myers

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Aberjhani

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Joe E. Louis

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charlotte Bunch