Quotes

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary, the mystic is marvelously present to them on the only level where he can truly reach them, that is in God. (Meister Eckhart)

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that. (Jake Roberts)

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.. (William Arthur Ward)

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. (Luke Ford)

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. (Irving Layton)

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. (George Dennison Prentice)

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. (A. R. Ammons)

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.. (George Bernard Shaw)