A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.