"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies."
Madame de Sablé
"If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out."
Jonathan Galassi
"It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered."
Christian Bovee
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.'Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
"As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to 'the difference personalities make'."
Walter Isaacson
"All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work."
R. A. Delmonico
"We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together."
Robert Kennedy
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."
Hamza Yusuf
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way."
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