In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

André Gide

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

James Allen

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

John Kuypers

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Percy Wynham Lewis

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

John Locke

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Ben Hecht

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Arthur H. Stainback

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Frank Capra

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

Margaret Mead