There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
—Willa Cather
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
—Abraham Lincoln
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
—Etty Hillesum
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
—Frederick Langbridge
We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
—Charles De Gaulle
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
—Joseph Conrad
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
—Saul Bellow
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.
—David Assael
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
—Ann Richards
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
—W. Somerset Maugham
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
—Tom Thompson
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
—Joseph Addison
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
—Henry James
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
—Pythagoras