Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 158

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Robert Duvall

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

Ashley Tisdale

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

Habeeb Akande

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?

Hanson