Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Jay Weatherill

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

George Bernard Shaw

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Bible

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Kristen Wiig

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Arabic Proverb

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

Annie Dillard

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

Beth Ditto

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Lord Chesterfield

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski