Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Johnson

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

George Bernard Shaw

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Alanna Ubach

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

William Mathews

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant McGill

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

Aristotle

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

Bob Schieffer

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Jerry Saltz

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Isabel Allende