It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Ann Veneman

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin.

Rumi

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Octavio Paz

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Margaret Mead

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

Never say never

Charles Dickens

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield