Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moli

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H. W. Bush

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

Abigail Breslin

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Henny Youngman

In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.

Mariana Fulger

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Gloria Steinem

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Russel H. Conwell

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Philip Levine

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

Percy Bysshe Shelley