Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. – William Henry Harrison
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I dont want to be in any box. I dont want to be one thing. – Penelope Cruz
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that theyd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
