"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
Edward de Bono
"A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane."
David Foster Wallace
"A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice."
Frances Mayes
"Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them."
Anonymous
"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
Edith Södergran
"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Worry never climbed a hill worry never paid a bill Worry never dried a tear worry never calmed a fear Worry never darned a heel worry never cooked a meal It never led a horse to water nor ever did a thing it 'oughter.'."
Anonymous
"Thought flies and words go on foot."
Julien Green
"Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us."
Charlotte Featherstone
"I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . Shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."
Seneca
"Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices."
Linda Fisher Thornton
"The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?"
Mary Balogh
"The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel."
Harold Holzer
"When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth."
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