Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.

I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

You're good enough, Jacob.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.