A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.
—Christopher Isherwood (Anglo-American Novelist, Playwright)
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
—Charlotte Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
—Gerald Ford (American Head of State)
Life without commitment is not worth living.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (American Jewish Rabbi)
The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (English Journalist)
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
—Ann Patchett (American Novelist)
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
—Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (English Intellectual, Politician)
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
—Hester Thrale (Welsh Writer)
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
—Michael Jordan (American Sportsperson)
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
—Christopher Marlowe (English Playwright)
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
—Philippine Proverb