"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 November 28, 1962
"I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance." — Jon Stewart, American comedian, born November 28, 1962
"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise." — Patrick Stewart, English actor, born July 13, 1940
"When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it." — R. L. Stine, American author, born October 8, 1943
"There are all kinds of worlds in the real world, she said softly: Most people don't know that." — R. L. Stine, American author, born October 8, 1943
"Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn’t recognize them.”" — R. L. Stine, American author, born October 8, 1943
"I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them." — Sting, English musician, born October 2, 1951
"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides." — Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian poet, born March 11, 1959
"All dust is the same dust, temporarily separated." — Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian poet, born March 11, 1959
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." — Bram Stoker, Irish author, died April 20, 1912