"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." ~ John Dalberg-Acton

"It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting." ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." ~ Jesse Jackson

"Stat rosa pristina nomine; nomina nuda tenemus." ~ Umberto Eco

(The ancient rose remains by its name, naked names are all that we have.)

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Matthew Arnold - In Harmony with Nature

"In Harmony with Nature? Restless fool,
Who with such heat dost preach what were thee,
When true, the last impossibility—
To be like Nature strong, like Nature cool!

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more,
And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Nature is cruel, man is sick of of blood;
Nature is stubborn, man would fain adore;

Nature is fickle, man hath need of rest;
Nature forgives no debt, and fears no grave;
Man would be mild, and with safe conscience blest.

Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends;
Nature and man can never be fast friends.
Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!" ~ Matthew Arnold

"We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." ~ Ayn Rand