Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

Lisa Guerrero

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

Enid Starkie

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Ang Lee

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.

C. J. Weber

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Sammy Cahn

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

Richard Holmes

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Henry David Thoreau

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Susan Sontag