Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (Irish Novelist)
Diversify everything in your life, including the people you listen to for advice.
—James Altucher (American Author, Entrepreneur)
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
—Vance Palmer (Australian Writer, Critic)
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
—Ben Stein (American Lawyer)
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
—Margaret Cho (American Stand-Up Comedian)
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
—Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)
Increased borrowing must be matched by increased ability to repay. Otherwise we aren’t expanding the economy, we’re merely puffing it up.
—Henry C. Alexander (American Banker)
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)
I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
—Tom Landry (American Football Coach)