“Private people, in short, are so much more their own that...they are rulers of all the rest.”— William Penn, amazon.com
“Loyalty may be stupid and it may be irrational, but its stubborn indifference to rational calculation is its very strength.”— Eric Felten, amazon.com
“Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“Boasting is what a boy does because he has no real effect in the world.”— Matthew B. Crawford, amazon.com
“As long as you are breathing this is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong with you.”— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.com
“At five o'clock on Sunday, the elevator door opened, and out stepped a tall, blazered, gray-trousered man whom I instantly recognized, and a white-haired woman in a handsome Rodier suit. It was the Nabokovs. They came to the table. I was a little nervous. I was not an accomplished journalist; I knew…”— James Salter, theparisreview.org
“Tell me whom you consort with and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“To communicate is natural; to accept what is communicated is an acquired art.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Absolute activity, of whatever kind, ultimately leads to bankruptcy.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“If monkeys could reach the point of being bored, they could turn into human beings.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“There is no situation which cannot be ennobled by work or else by endurance.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“We cannot know if there is such a thing as altogether unappreciated genius or whether it is the day dream of those who are not geniuses.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.”— James Salter, amazon.com
“Kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.”— Stephen King, thewritepractice.com