“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”— Mordecai Richler, Duddy Kravitz, amazon.com
“The image of again, and so many of your friends already gone, and strangers in the seats of the mighty, who do not know you, or your triumphs, or your incredible value. Above all, perhaps, the image of a need greater than hunger or sex or third, a need to leave a thumb print somewhere on the world.…”— Arthur Miller, amazon.com
“Whenever I throw him at wrestling he beats me by arguing that he was never down, and he can even make the spectators believe.”— Anthony Podlecki, Plutarch, amazon.com
“I never employ an expert in full bloom. If I ever wanted to kill the opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert—because no one ever considers himself expert if he reall…”— Henry Ford, amazon.com
“To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experiences.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”— Ambrose Bierce, amazon.com
“All that belongs to me, and I can keep it all my life if I want to. It took me some time, sitting there, to make myself believe it. That was the main thing I'd hoped to accomplish. Fred and the advertising agency and the gold letter on the door of our office had never become real to me—and I knew th…”— William Seabrook, amazon.com
“'This man has conquered the world! What have you accomplished?' 'I have conquered the need to conquer the world.'”— Alexander the Great, amazon.com
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”— Dr. Seuss, reddit.com
“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“It is very much lamented, Brutus That you have no such mirrors us will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, amazon.com
“Fellows like Willie Stark are born outside of luck, good or bad, and luck, which is what about makes you and me what we are, doesn't have anything to do with them, for they are what they are from the time they first kick in the womb until they end. And if that is the case, then their life history is…”— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com