We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

John Green

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Lord Shaftesbury

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

A man is free only when he lives in truth, and truth can be perceived only by the intellect.

Leo Tolstoy

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

Yanni

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

George M. Humphrey

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Julie Burchill

And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

Omar Khayyam

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Oscar Wilde