Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

Kahlil Gibran

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

Jane Rogers

The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Joyce Maynard

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.

Andy Grove

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Konstantin Stanislavisky

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Katherine Anne Porter

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

Another grave limitation of language is that it cannot, like music or gesture, do more than one thing at once. However the words in a great poet's phrase interinanimate one another and strike the mind as a quasi-instantaneous chord, yet, strictly speaking, each word must be read or heard before the next. That way, language is as unilinear as time. Hence, in narrative, the great difficulty of presenting a very complicated change which happens suddenly. If we do justice to the complexity, the time the reader must take over the passage will destroy the feeling of suddenness. If we get the suddenness we shall not be able to get in the complexity. I am not saying that genius will not find its own way of palliating this defect in the instrument; only that the instrument is in this way defective.

C.S. Lewis

By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero