Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

I owe my career to Paul Heyman.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Life aint always beautiful, but its a beautiful ride.

I'm a tomboy! Even though I look all-girlie and act girlie, in reality at home I am such a tomboy. I like to mess around and hang out with my brothers, that is the most fun for me!

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.