Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

You stand by me, and you believe in me like nobody ever has. When my world goes crazy, you're right there to save me. You make me see how much I have.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.