Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. (William Hale White)
This book fills a much-needed gap. (Moses Hadas)
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. (Fred Allen)
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. (William Ralph Inge)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. (Plutarch)
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. (Joan Klempner)
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. (Aesop)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. (Susan Sontag)
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. (Matthew Arnold)
Blushing is the color of virtue. (Laertius Diogenes)
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be (Chauncey Wright)
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. (Anna M. Uhlich)
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. (Thomas Jefferson)
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. (P. G. Wodehouse)
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. (La Rochefoucauld)
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. (Bob Dylan)
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. (Alice Walker)
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. (Edward De Bono)