Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page..

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience..

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried..

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty..

The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, ther….

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies..

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice,….

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissev….

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it..

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only ….

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more..

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot..

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a D….

A Christian who does not protect Creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God, that work that was born ….

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles..

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely..

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us..

Everyone truly does have God-given gifts. Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are..

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that kn….

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against..

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is exclud….