“Evening is like old age we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death...”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“He's detached about your pain, but God knows he takes his own pain more seriously than cancer...There is nothing remotely detached about my father's behavior towards his own pain, in his hemorrhages about anything personal being known about him...It finally dawned on me that my father, for all his p…”— Margaret Salinger, amazon.com
“He had not a good memory for proper names, words and dates, but it was prodigious for facts and localities.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“'Mr. Churchill sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?' Without pause of hesitation, he replied: 'Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can life down.' And then he got into his limo.”— Boris Johnson, amazon.com
“It's what a person does at the moment of greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people get that moment. This is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”— Robert Kurson, amazon.com
“You think you have hit the bottom many times then always find something else to lose, till after a while what once seemed like the bottom is an altitude that you are trying to scrabble back to.”— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com
“To clean up you have to weigh up what you want, and the best you can hope for at first is a fraction of a percentage in the difference between the desire to stop and the desire to plough on downwards.”— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com
“One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. On this confrontation depends the measure of our wisdom and compassion. This energy is all that one finds in the rubble of vanished civilizations, and the only hope for ours.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“He was defeated long before he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about it.”— James Baldwin, npr.org
“The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.”— James Baldwin, progressive.org
“The solace to murmurs of this kind to be found in the refection that the road to wealth is accessible to all. The wheel of fortune is in perpetual rotation and he who today occupies the lowest Station in the Wheel in a short time may exchange situations with the one who enjoys the highest.”— Gov. Barbour, amazon.com