I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Jeff Bridges

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

Raheel Farooq

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Thomas Hood

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Marilyn Hacker

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

E. V. Cooke

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Robert Eldridge Willmott

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Ray D. Everson

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

Josefa Iloilo

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Lucille Ball

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare