People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
—Anatole France
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
—Thomas Edison
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
—Courtney Milan in Unraveled
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
—H.P. Lovecraft
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
—Jef Mallett
A cult is a religion with no political power.
—Tom Wolfe
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
—Ray Bradbury
People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
—Josh Lanyon in The Dark Tide
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
—Joseph Brodsky
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
—A. J. Liebling
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
—Peter McWilliams
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
—Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
—Warsan Shire
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
—Thomas Merton