How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Mary Garden

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

Thomas Kempis

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Harry Seidler

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Nelson Algren

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Victor Borge

Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Corporal John Faunce

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

That one moment that starts it all. The moment that gives light to the rest of your life. You're not going to realize it but, that's the beauty of it. You won't know it until you've reached the state of grace, when everything is aligned and you realize that despite your rough year the world is still spinning and taking you with it. And, no matter what happens, everything will be okay. You will always have people who love you, since before, now, and after.

A.A. Byer

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch