What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
—George D. Prentice (American Journalist)
We are but dreams, and dreams possess no life by their own right.
—Gene Wolfe
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Head of State)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
—Herm Albright (German-American Artist, Columnist)
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.
—Unknown
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
—Richard Sapir (American Novelist)
The function of values is to give us the illusion of purpose in life.
—Dero A. Saunders (American Journalist)