There are two kinds of people in one’s life—people whom one keeps waiting—and the people for whom one waits. — Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893-1973)
How glorious it is—and also how painful—to be an exception. — Alfred de Musset, French author (1810-1857)
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. — Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects: Is this not true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
To oppose something is to maintain it. — Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love—that is the soul of genius. — Attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. — Thoreau
Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)