"Sing with all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind." — Pocahontas, Native American, died March 13, 1617
"But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name." — Pocahontas, Native American, died March 13, 1617
"Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin." — Pocahontas, Native American, marries English colonist John Rolfe, April 5, 1614
"There is no exquisite beauty without some sense of strangeness in its proportions." — Edgar Allen Poe, American author, poet, born January 19, 1809
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." — Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, born January 19, 1809
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, died October 7, 1849
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed." — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born February 20, 1927
"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?" — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born February 20, 1927
"We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections." — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born February 20, 1927
"I am the me I choose to be." — Sidney Poitier, First African-American male to win Best Actor award, April 13, 1964
"Win with Grace. Lose with dignity." — Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player, born April 19, 1969
"There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." — Jackson Pollock, American expressionist painter, born January 28, 1912
"In response to the question, How do you know when you're finished?, Pollock replied, How do you know when you're finished making love?" — Jackson Pollock, American painter, died August 11, 1956
"Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego." — Paulina Porizkova, Czech-American model, born April 9, 1965