Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Keith Emerson

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Shmuel Y. Agnon

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold H. Glasow

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

Stephen King

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

Fear is the foundation of most government.

John Adams

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

Tony Kushner

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen