Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.
Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.
Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.
If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.
Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.
I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.