Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Robertson Davies

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

There must be a reason why people hesitate; uncertainty is one, no courage another.

Ron De Jonge

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Jodie Foster

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich Schiller

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Charles Baudelaire

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James A. Baldwin

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Cal Le Mon

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Philip Massinger