If people are not being told the truth about their problems, the majority not only may, but invariably must, make the wrong judgments.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
—Terry Eagleton
How important, often, is the pain of guilt, as a stimulant to amendment and reformation.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
—Charles A. Garfield
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
—Harvey Samuel Firestone (American Businessperson)
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)