“Perhaps he could not tell his greatness from ungreatness and so mixed them together that what was adulterated was lost.”— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com
“My idea of happiness is...never to have to do anything I don't wish to do.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“I thank you for the visit you persuaded me to make, and my thanks might have been warmer if you had not made me pay for it so dearly.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“He was in a mess, one of those terrific messes which are ordinary incidents in the life of the poor, which follow poverty like birds of prey. The poor go under or go up or go wrong or even go on, somehow, in a way the poor have.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Life to me is a series of glistening bazaars with a merchant in front of each one rubbing his hands together and saying 'Patronize this place here. Best bazaar in the world.'”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“When I hear a man proclaiming himself an 'average, honest, open fellow,' I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protection of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“He was one of the unlucky men who see straight through to a logical answer to every question and they wear themselves out fighting everyone else to get there. He never learned that people hate being beaten over the head with anything, even the truth.”— Pat Jahns, amazon.com
“[Lincoln's time as a lawyer] schooled him in the book of human behavior...[It made him] resigned and forgiving, not callous and bitter...He was willing to do business with imperfect men if they could serve his purpose.”— James Swanson, amazon.com
“The secret—the secret of the man himself and of his success with the Times as well—is that Mr. O as crowd-consciousness. He with a newspaper, is like an orator. Both of them address a crowd, with an understanding of its emotions, or rather, with a likeness of emotions, and as the orator and the crow…”— Garet Garrett, amazon.com
“We have burned the bridges behind us—indeed, we have gone back farther and destroyed the land behind us.”— Nietzche, amazon.com
“The corporation is an externalizing machine in the same way that a shark is a killing machine. There isn't any question of malevolence or will.”— Robert Montis, amazon.com
“It is not punishment that gives discipline its authority, but it is punishment that prevents discipline from losing its authority.”— Emile Durkheim, amazon.com
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com