Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw...

But catnip she would eat, and purr, But catnip she would eat, and purr. And goldfish she did much prefer-- Mew, mew, mew. ~ Vachel Lin...

In case you haven't heard, education researchers began realizing a few years ago that all that self-esteem building parents and schools ...

There are thousands of minor poets, but poetry has ceased to be a minor subject. Any one mentally alive cannot escape it. Poetry is in the a...

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein ~ Photo by Jack Mitchell .

Money often costs too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Graphic courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ ...

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called "slow." It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as ...

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? ~ Aldous Huxley ~ Poster...

Peace is ultimately more than just the absence of war. Peace is also the presence of liberty, justice, opportunity, fairness, environmental...

'My poem is a conversation with you and no one else.' ~ From Swimming Home by Deborah Levy ~

In the mind of the mariner, there is a superstitious horror connected with the name of Pirate; and there are few subjects that interest and...

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, c...

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ Photo courtesy NY Public Library Digital...

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great l...

Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arc...

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ...

So variable are the uses of language, so infinitely flexible their application, that the storyteller may turn the simplest of words into ...

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. ~ Bill Nye ~ Graphic...

Everything starts from a dot. ~ Wassily Kandinsky ~ "Forest Landscape with Red Figure" (1902) courtesy The Athenaeum .

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ~ Vincent Van Gogh ~ Painting courtesy...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ Geor...

Pussy sits beside the fire. How can she be fair? In walks a little doggy, "Pussy, are you there?" ~ Mother Goose nursery rhyme ...

It's been said that adults spend the first two years of their children's lives trying to make them walk and talk, and the next sixte...

One should be somewhat satisfied if one's work comes to approximate a true record of such moments of "illumination" as are ...

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. ~ Ja...

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. ~ Rainn Wilson ~ Photo by Nan ...

Go out and do it and take it to 'em. And play the music. ~ Mickey Hart ~

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers' stone, and the cap of good fortune. ~ James Weldon Johnson ~ [I'm not ...

A cat came fiddling out of a barn. With a pair of bag-pipes under her arm: She could sing nothing but fiddle cum fee, The mouse has mar...

...remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of t...

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ~ John Ciardi ~ Photo courtesy Harvard Square Library .

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~ Lionel Hampton ~

We were so obsessed with our kids' success that parenting turned into a form of product development. ~ Nancy Gibbs ~ Image courtesy...

Stories unite people, theories divide them. ~ James Billington ~ Illustration courtesy NYPL Digital Gallery .

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers... ~ Bayard Rustin ~ Photo courtesy UIC Digital Collections .

To the north, on bright days you may be seen in your chariot drawn by white cats moving across the fields, across the sky blue-robed, you...

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful. ~ Liz Smith ~ Image courtesy NYPL Digital Gallery .

Every poet has to develop a habit of work. You have to create a sense of legitimacy for the job and bring a sense of strenuousness to...

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ~ Voltaire ~ Photo courtesy NY Publ...

It happens. Here's a longish one that will have to count for two days: A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes,...

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't...

On bare new wood fourteen tomatoes, a dozen ears of corn, six bottles of white wine, a melon, a cat, broccoli, and the Alligator ...

Narrative building is the key to success in politics and it has been by far Obama’s biggest deficiency. He has been way too reasonable and ...

I saved up my allowance and bought the little blue, cloth-covered collected Eliot for two dollars and fifty cents and I was off. I decided t...

Unlike the ability to understand and produce spoken language, which under normal circumstances will unfold according to a program dictated b...

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world. ~ Katy Perry...

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic...

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. ~...

Oh I am a cat that likes to Gallop about doing good ~ Stevie Smith from "The Galloping Cat" ~ Eadweard Muybridge locomotion s...

When you fear the books, you also fear the truth. ~ Kelly Jensen ~

How true this is with regard to writing poetry--you have to grab it when it runs by, or it'll be lost to you. --KK Photo courtesy Li...

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zomb...

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. ~ Dorothy L. ...

The "gluten-free" label has become one of the best ways to sell a product. The industry is worth upward of $4 billion, and is expe...

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. ~ Jeanette Winterson ~ Photo © Diane M...

I think it’s ironic that in the last 15 or 20 years we’ve had the interest in multiculturalism and diversity, but at the same time we’...

The power of responding to the intuitive and the poetic is greatest in childhood. If we can wake in children a response beyond their immed...

Here in America to-day, we are fighting another War--perhaps an even greater one--a war against selfishness and materialism and intolerance ...

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great perform...

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ Photo courtesy New York ...

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. ~ Justin Cronin ~

The cat sits on the ledge inside the window and watches me returning through the dusk. Predictable as the hands of a clock, the eyes of t...

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of Th...