I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Christopher Dawson

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

Toba Beta

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Roberto Cavalli

It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

Niccolo Machiavelli

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

Source Unknown

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Richard Dawkins

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude LeviStrauss

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

Kesha