“Theories thus become instruments, not answers to enigmas in which we can rest.”— William James, marxists.org
“...Americans always want to do what everyone else is doing. If we could spread the impression that the book is a success, it might really become one.”— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com
“When I meet young people who tell me they aspire to leadership, my first question is 'To what end?' If they can't answer that question, then I have to conclude that they don't really deserve leadership; they're just trying to be a celebrity.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.”— Douglas R. Hofstadter, amazon.com
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The majority of the living weary us or are strangers to us. We truly know and love only the dead. So long as man is alive one does not know what he is or what he will do. We have unwavering confidence only in the dead.”— Maurice Maeterlinck, amazon.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is ba…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“It is somehow like a nightmare to see someone change in front of your eyes, to become a stranger and not to be able, with just your love, to make them that familiar person again.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com