To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

Walter Benjamin

Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.

Bob Dylan

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

Shahrukh Khan

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Geoffrey F. Fisher

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

David Hasselhoff

Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

Orson Scott Card

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

John Barrymore

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Aeschylus