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Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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Alfred Whitney Griswold: The divine spark...

Alfred Whitney Griswold: The divine spark...

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of...

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John Hope Franklin: We must get...

John Hope Franklin: We must get...

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore...

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Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...

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Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...

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Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...

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Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Billy thought privately that the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were. Sometimes she...

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Charles Reade: Not a day...

Charles Reade: Not a day...

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble...

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Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...

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Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...

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Brian Moore: If misery loves...

Brian Moore: If misery loves...

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

Source: An Answer from...

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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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Diogenes: As a matter...

Diogenes: As a matter...

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the...

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Georg Hegel: An idea is...

Georg Hegel: An idea is...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to...

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Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he...

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Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Source: In...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Source: Culture and Value (ed. by G....

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: When men dream,...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: When men dream,...

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Every philosophy is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Every philosophy is...

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Source: Essays,...

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