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Salman Rushdie: I used to...

Salman Rushdie: I used to...

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...

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Anthony Powell: He fell in...

Anthony Powell: He fell in...

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove...

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Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion...

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Ken Kesey: You don't lead...

Ken Kesey: You don't lead...

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a...

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Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...

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Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the...

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: There will be...

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: There will be...

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of...

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Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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Wayne Dyer: Our intention creates...

Wayne Dyer: Our intention creates...

Our intention creates our reality.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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George Gurdjieff: A man is...

George Gurdjieff: A man is...

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an...

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William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg.

Source: De generatione animalium,...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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