The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

Han Suyin

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann von Goethe

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Shirley MacLaine

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Hi! My little hutIs newly-thatched I see...Blue morning-glories

Issa

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

Bob Graham

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Peter Demianovich Ouspensky

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Aldous Huxley