The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

Taryn Manning

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

Simon Mainwaring

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon, Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Alice Meynell

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

I like man, but not men

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Mae West

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

Walter Lippmann

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White