He teaches me to be good who does me good.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
—Frank Zappa (American Rock Guitarist, Singer, Composer)
Power does not satisfy, on the contrary it is like a drug and always requires greater doses.
—Luciano De Crescenzo (Italian Film Actor, Director, Engineer)
It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
—Louise Hay (American Self-Help Author)
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
—Vida Dutton Scudder (American Social Activist)
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
—B. F. Skinner (American Psychologist)
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
—Richard Wilbur (American Poet, Translator)
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
—Moliere (French Playwright)
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
—Jenny Holzer (American Conceptual Artist)
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
—Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (American Advice Columnist)
I can’t remember the names of all the clubs we went to.
—Shaquille O’Neal (American Sportsperson)
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
—Cyril Connolly (British Literary Critic)