We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Fabr

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Pearl S. Buck

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickle

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

John Ruskin

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Stephen King

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Leon Spinks