Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Juliet Mills

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

Jose Marti

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Jimi Hendrix

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Loretta Young

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Gustav Stresemann

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine

Michael Crichton

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt