Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Giordano Bruno

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Harvey Fierstein

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.

Proverb

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Paulo Coelho

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins

I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Pope Gregory VII

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Charles Kuralt