The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
—Ivy Baker Priest (1905–75) American Politician
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting?. If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
—Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American Filmmaker
A “fraternity” is the antithesis of fraternity. The first… is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
When I hear somebody sigh that “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–86) American Essayist, Drama Critic
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
Don’t think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It’s really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.
—Unknown
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
—Pema Chodron (b.1936) American Buddhist Nun
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
—Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American Essayist, Novelist
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness … and fewer those who have taken that chance.
—Andre Maurois (1885–1967) French Novelist, Biographer
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.
—Unknown
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
—Russian Proverb
No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
—Joan Baez (b.1941) American Singer, Songwriter, Musician
All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number.
—Martin H. Fischer
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet