
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. —
Francis Bacon

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility. —
Francis Chan

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. —
Jodi Picoult

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined. —
Hermione Lee

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other. —
Stella Benson

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge. —
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. —
Leo Tolstoy

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage
leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. —
Phyllis McGinley