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Quotes by Writer
"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."
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"Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day."
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"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
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"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
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"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
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"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
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"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
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"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
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"People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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"The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that's gone. I'm lost without it."
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"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
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"Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess."
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
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"Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies."
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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
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"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
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"Take care of your health. Don't look for one quick fix to cure all your ailments. Take the time every day to help your mind, body, and soul heal. It is extremely important for your daily happiness to know that you are supporting your health instead of hurting it."
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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
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"When you commit to doing something every day it is hard. It seems impossible and you want to quit but if you just hang in there you will see it gets easier. Every day you get a little stronger. Every day you try a little harder. There will be times when you want to quit. Your mind will tell you to stop. You need to persist. You need to continue trying every single day. And one day you will notice how easy it has become to do something that seemed so hard in the beginning."
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
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"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
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"Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities."
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