The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Johann von Goethe

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

James Tobin

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

John Ruskin

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Drew Barrymore

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Friedrich von Schiller

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Robert Burchfield

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Plato

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

Joey Lauren Adams

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Peter Ustinov