To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour.First published by Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863), it was composed between 1800 - 1803 http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

George Orwell

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Will Rogers

Love, and you shall be loved

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Harry Kurnitz

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

George Bush

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

James Fenton

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Robert Casey