The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

Source Unknown

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Margaret Fuller

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann von Goethe

Oh, its Tommy this, an Tommy that, an Tommy, go away;But its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band begins to playThe band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,Oh, its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band begins to play.

Rudyard Kipling

The wise are wise only because they love.

Paulo Coelho

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anna Deavere Smith

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Ludwig von Mises

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

William Styron

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

Elliot Richardson

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann von Goethe

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola