“The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”— William Butler Yeats, amazon.com
“The thirsty man goes to the well, the well doesn't go to the thirsty man.”— Indian Proverb, amazon.com
“It can take years of slogging to learn to feign respect for hollow authority.”— Michael Lewis, amazon.com
“The benefits of the new system are usually invisible, yet the costs hit you in the face.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Identical moral choices can require far more personal courage in some instances than others and those who do the right thing under such circumstances are very brave indeed.”— Karl Malantes, amazon.com
“Until that time I had understood death as something totally separate and independent from life...”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It's like I am split in two and playing catch with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big fat past. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it...The pain of growing up. We didn't pay when we should have so now the bill is due.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“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
“Every American is eaten up with longing to rise, but hardly any of them seem to entertain very great hopes or aim very high. All are constantly bent on gaining property, reputation and power, but few conceive of such thing on a grand scale...They are much more in love with success than with glory.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com
“You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com