Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Paul Wellstone

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Ezra Taft Benson

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Martin Amis

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

William Godwin

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Charles Franklin Kettering

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Tom Fleming

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Florence Scovel Shinn