What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

William Wordsworth

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Clyde Tombaugh

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Robert Frost

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Sir Hugh Walpole

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Marianne Williamson