To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Ornette Coleman

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Jacquelyn Gross

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

Raymond E. Feist

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Alan Keyes

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jessica Alba

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Georges Clemenceau

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Stephen Richards

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Johann von Goethe

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

Brenda Ueland