Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Robert Anderson

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Meister Eckhart

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Abraham Lincoln

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Dee Dee Ramone

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Gautama Buddha

Dream big and dare to fail.

Norman D. Vaughan

It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

Robert Conklin

For poetry and I are oneTo separate is to decapitateFor my poetry is forever.

Kerry D. Brackett

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier