If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

Katherine Dunham

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.

Jacob Ghitis

So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

John Lancaster Spalding

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

Does she know you love her? Of course. I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me. If you love her, I said, you'll love somebody else someday.

Sylvia Plath

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

Lee Konitz

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

Sebastian Barry

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

Benjamin Disraeli