No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Groucho Marx

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

I love marriage.

Jeff Bridges

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Ron Fournier

There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.

Toba Beta

Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution, so neither has it the authority: for in all forms of government the people is the true legislator; and whether the immediate and instrumental cause of the law be a single person or many,

Edmund Burke

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

Jess C. Scott

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Susanna Kaysen

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

Source Unknown

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

Joseph Brodsky

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

David Hume