The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Voltaire

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Sir William Temple

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Mark Strand

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

Steve Maraboli

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

W. Winwood Reade

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Willem de Kooning

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

David Amram

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Wilder Penfield, Foreward to the

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

John McLaughlin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin