Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Oscar Wilde

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Garth Stein

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Theodore Roosevelt

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Allan Bloom

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

Ralph Waldo Emerson