Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Salman Rushdie

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

Samantha Morton

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

Francesco Guicciardini

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Rick Perry

I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

Paula Deen

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

James Cash Penney

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony