The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Joseph Addison

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

Maggie Stiefvater

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Maya Angelou

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas More

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!

Robert M. Price

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A short absence is the safest.

Ovid

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

Thomas Jefferson

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neil

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

Aubrey O'Day