Latest Quotes

“Clinton signed documents declaring she had turned over all of her work-related emails. We now know that is not true.”

— Peter Schweizer, The Strange Gaps in Hillary Clinton’s Email Traffic

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“We often hear that success is ‘all about the people you know’ — as if it’s just a matter of equal-opportunity relationship building. We rarely talk about how one knows them, or about the privilege that has become a prerequisite to knowing the right people. I sometimes get calls and emails from frien…”

— Darren Walker, Internships Are Not a Privilege

“Break classification rules for the public's benefit, and you could be exiled. Do it for personal benefit, and you could be President.”

— Edward SnowdenVerified account, twitter.com

“The naive mind imagines effortless success. The cowardly mind imagines hardship and freezes. The resilient mind imagines hardship and prepares.”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Today, people tell you, "Don't worry." That's usually friendly advice – and also unhelpful. It's better to tell people, "Worry productively." If you're going to spend time thinking about bad things that might happen, then use that energy for a purpose. Go ahead and visualize the worst that can happe…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“The patient looks around frantically. She is sobbing, panicking, overwhelmed by anxiety. She says she can't breathe; her lungs are about to collapse; her heart is about to stop. She feels like she is going to die. The doctor asks: "Do you think you could exercise strenuously right now?" She doesn't…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“David Burns is a psychiatrist who's pioneered a new way of treating depression. Rather than taking the patient's negative emotions for granted, he challenges them. Rather than using drugs, he uses reason. He finds that many of the painful things we believe about ourselves are wrong, or at least exag…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Imagine that a friend tells us, "I feel depressed every morning." Society has taught us that we're supposed to say, "I'm sorry you feel that way." And that's a fine thing to say. But then we're supposed to ask: WHY: "Why do you feel depressed?" WHAT: "What makes you depressed?" WHEN: "How long have…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Human beings have produced wonders. We've cured diseases and reduced hunger, charted outer space, expanded the prospects for long and joyous lives. Were we to return to ancient Greece with all of our technology, we would indeed seem godlike. But we are not gods, and fortune is not ours to direct. Id…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Those who are cut off from the land, except as a place to relax and recreate are often afflicted with urban idealism. More and more people today live in a world of streets and houses and buildings and stadiums and schools. Stores and shops provide food. All of these have been built by man, and it ca…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“We are all trying to heal through relationship. Each dance is a mini relationship, and as such, it makes us tap into the memories and inner voices of past hurts, experiences of failure, fears, doubts, and judgments. And as in a relationship, moving with another body confronts us with the challenge o…”

— Yelizaveta Nersesova, 5 Things I Have Learned About Life From Dancing With Strangers

“The worst people in this country saw your father-in-law’s message and took it as they saw fit.”

— Dana Schwartz, An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees

“If my father in law’s fast-moving team was careless in choosing an image to retweet, well part of the reason it’s so shocking is that it’s the actual candidate communicating with the American public rather than the armies of handlers who poll-test ordinary candidates’ every move.”

— Jared Kushner, Jared Kushner: The Donald Trump I Know

“It doesn’t take a ton of courage to join a mob. It’s actually the easiest thing to do.”

— Jared Kushner, Jared Kushner: The Donald Trump I Know

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

— Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more people per capita than any other state or country.”

— Clint Smith, via twitter.com

“A majority of Louisiana prisoners are housed in for-profit facilities run by local sheriffs, which is a $182 million industry in the state.”

— Clint Smith, via twitter.com

“Louisiana has five times the incarceration rate as Iran, 13 times China's, and 20 times more than Germany's.”

— Clint Smith, via twitter.com