The superstition in which we grew up,Though we may recognize it, does not loseIts power over us--Not all are freeWho make mock of their chains.

Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Todd Rundgren

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Eddie Vedder

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

P. D. James

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

William L. Jenkins

Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.Love. Love was what drove him.

David Bowles

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.

Jack Coe