The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Marlene Dietrich
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie Sheen
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton
Without tenderness a man is uninteresting.
Marlene Dietrich
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
