"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
-Margaret Fuller
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
-Margaret Fuller
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
-Margaret Fuller
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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
-Margaret Fuller
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
-Margaret Fuller
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"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."
-Margaret Fuller
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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