Which is more real, when you face reality, or when reality faces you?

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Marshall McLuhan

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

Stella Adler

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

Hugh Mackay

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

Norma McCorvey

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Nancy Kerrigan

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Dan Buettner

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

Jennifer Ellison

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims....

Oscar Wilde

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Kitty O'neill Collins