For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Simon Newcomb

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Ben Affleck

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Wendy Wasserstein

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.

Che Guevara

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Joseph Lancaster

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook

George Carlin