Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
—William Feather (American Author, Publisher)
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
—Allen Klein (American Author)
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
—George Goodman (American Economist)
What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
—William Carlos Williams (American Poet, Novelist, Cultural Historian)
Finding practical answers to tough problems seems to take a backseat to ideology.
—Christopher R. Hill (American Diplomat)
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
—Catharine Beecher ((1800–78) American Educationalist, Reformer)
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.
—William J. H. Boetcker (American Presbyterian Minister)
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
—Paul Valery (French Critic, Poet)
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
—E. M. Forster (English Novelist)
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
—Paul Auster (American Novelist, Poet)