"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807
"Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don’t grasp anything. We don’t try to control anything. We just sit." — John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic, born 1931
"If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else." — Jennifer Lopez, American singer, born 1969
"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." — Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, born 1898
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." — Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, born 1898
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us." — Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, born 1934
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." — Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, born 1934
"Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?" — Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor, born 1904
"A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His 'becoming' happens during his daily routine." — Joe Louis, American boxer, born 1914