They are able because they think they are able.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)
The difference between guilt and shame is very clear—in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.
—Lewis B. Smedes (American Christian Theologian)
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul – its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, which is the reward of our struggles.
—Bruno Bettelheim (Austrian-born Psychoanalyst)
If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfilment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon (English Poet, Novelist)
Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
—Donna Tartt (American Novelist)
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor (Hungarian-born Film Actress)
All’s not offence that indiscretion finds.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
—Martin Luther (German Protestant Theologian)
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
—Charles Simmons (American Editor, Novelist)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)
Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.
—Giacomo Leopardi (Italian Poet)
Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by millions of individuals, the sum total of which is “globalization.” No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of “spontaneous order.”
—John Naisbitt (American Trend Analyst)