Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Daniel Dennett

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. But it is not easy to banish the notion that there can be universal brotherhood just as soon as everybody gives up his faith and accepts ours. That day may never come, for the richness of human diversity cannot be abolished any more than Mars or Jupiter. Difference is the nature of life, it is part of our moral Universe. Without difference, life would become lifeless.

Adlai Stevenson

My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

Dream Song:In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.

Frances Densmore

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

John Wicker

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Earl Wilson

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

David Mamet

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage,Which God and nature do with actors fill

John Heywood