Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

William Blake

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Julie Andrews Edwards

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson

Franklin D. Roosevelt

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Cat Stevens

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

John F. Kennedy

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every other day--that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast.

Gene Wilder

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect manCommands all light, all influence, all fate.Nothing to him falls early, or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

John Fletcher, Upon an