Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can't be your dawn, I will be your sunset!

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.

The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state. Compared with other cities, adoption of the proposed

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.