The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

Tom Stoppard

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Arthur Henderson

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media.

Noam Chomsky

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber, Corporation Nati

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

Rebecca Goldstein

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Michel de Montaigne

hearts are breakable. and i think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

Cassandra Clare

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. The was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of witing. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

Charles Bukowski