I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

One of the first choices we make every day is your attitude. Wake up and put on an attitude of thanksgiving!