"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." — Mel Brooks, American film director, comedian, born June 28, 1926
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively." — Mel Brooks, American film director, comedian, born June 28, 1926
"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love." — Mel Brooks, American film director, comedian, born June 28, 1926
"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets." — Mel Brooks, American film director, comedian, born June 28, 1926
"I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use." — James Brown, American singer, born May 3, 1933
"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it." — James Brown, American singer, died December 25, 2006
"Had a western newsman with a camera not been present at Quang Duc’s suicide, history might have taken a different turn." — Malcolm Browne, American photographer, born 1931