Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Samuel Butler

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Edward Young

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Anne Sexton

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

Ever notice how irons have a setting for *permanent* press? Idon't get it...

Steven Wright

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Germaine Greer

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Zbigniew Brzezinski