Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

LL Cool J

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

T. Boone Pickens

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

Kelly Clarkson

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Jean Anouilh

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

The land was ours before we were the lands.

Robert Frost

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Ben Vereen

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold Glasgow

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Terry Pratchett