"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."

“Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”

“For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.”

Source : "Robbie Williams admits booze battle". www.cnn.com. April 9, 2001.

“Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

“Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher”

“I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”

Source : "America’s Cities Are Innovating for the Future" by Eric E. Schmidt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

“Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.”

“I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.”