The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)
There are so many little dyings that it doesn’t matter which of them is death.
—Kenneth Patchen (American Poet, Novelist)
He, therefore, who desires peace should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success should fight on principle, not chance.
—Vegetius (Roman Military Author)
God’s extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
—Neal A. Maxwell (American Mormon Religious Leader)
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
—Theodore L. Cuyler (American Presbyterian Clergyman)
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.
—Robert K. Cooper (American Neuroscientist)
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other’s nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
—Rebecca West (English Author)
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.
—Shana Alexander (American Journalist)
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate a taste.
—Nikki Giovanni (American Poet, Writer)
He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
—James Russell Lowell (American Poet, Critic)
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
—Maxwell Maltz (American Surgeon)
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
—A. W. Tozer (American Christian Pastor)