"Yes, you should talk, he said. Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth." — John Steinbeck, American author, born 1902
"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." — John Steinbeck, American author, born 1902
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." — John Steinbeck, American author, born 1902
"The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful." — David Steindl-Rast, Catholic Benedictine monk, born 1926
"Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you." — David Steindl-Rast, Catholic Benedictine monk, born 1926
"If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force." — Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, born 1861
"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings." — Frank Stella, American painter, born 1936
"After the final NO there comes a YES and on that YES the future of the world hangs." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879