To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Thornton Wilder

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

John Masefield

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

Paul Fussell

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Alfred A. Montapert

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

George McGovern

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Carl Gustav Jung

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

Jodi Picoult

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Abel Ferrara

No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.

Natasha Friend