Robert Bly

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right
man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high
school do not work in life.

John Lahr

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Vita Sackville West

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder,
but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Thomas A Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits

Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become
just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts,
brave by doing brave acts.

Yo-Yo Ma

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing,
talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments,
and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be
answered.

Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will,
your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul
is revealed by your actions.

Louis L'Amour

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories,
a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

William Collins

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot
can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

Robert Bly

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Anna Akhmatova

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only
if the monument be placed... here, where I endured
three hundred hours in line before the implacable
iron bars.

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and
newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading
this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's
so grimly brutal!

Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is
only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Hilaire Belloc

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled;
the difference between the two being this, that we
wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment

Thomas K. Hervey, 1799-1859, The Devil's Progress

"He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute."

John Donne

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it
tolls for thee.

Robert Burns

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead
of dying, he sings.

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred
days of sorrow.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving
someone deeply gives you courage.

St. Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Confucius

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on
another man's observation, not overturning it.

A.R. Ammons

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

William Faulkner

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure
to do the impossible."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul."

Eliza Cook

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

W.H. Auden

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons
released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting
and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in
both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice,
shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and
human dignity.