This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Paulo Coelho

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Joseph De Maistre

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Mary Kay Ash

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

H. L. Mencken, 1941

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Gustave Flaubert

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell, Lectures of a Ce

With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.

Hans Kasper

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Harry Mathews

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl Buck