If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, The U

Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.

Coco J. Ginger

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Scottish Proverb

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Aristotle

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, I don't know, no one has ever made it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

Stephen King

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

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When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Christopher Hitchens