Children are not only extremely good at learning

Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist.

Despite where you stand in life at the moment, always remember that your presence on earth matters as much as everyone else's.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.