People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.

The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Lynn M. Little

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Thomas Anderson

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to hi

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Jos

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro T. Agnew

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Brian Eno

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Reginald W. Kaufman

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Henry Miller