"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
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too." — James Stewart, American actor, born 1908
"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake." — Jon Stewart, American comedian, born 1962