09/30/19

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -Harry S. Truman

09/27/19

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for. -Jane Urquhart

09/26/19

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut

09/25/19

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. -Thornton Wilder

09/24/19

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. -George F. Will

09/23/19

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood. -Lu Xun

09/20/19

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. -Jane Yolen

09/19/19

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -Émile Zola

09/18/19

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. -Frank Zappa

09/17/19

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. -Rick Yancey

09/16/19

I don’t understand why people are such snobs about books. If you enjoy romances, read them. I don’t want Thanksgiving dinner every day. Some days I want a ham sandwich and a dozen chocolate chip cookies. And some days I want to read Jane Austen, and other days I want to read Agatha Christie, or maybe some author that no one has ever heard of who writes fun books that make me smile. -Diana Xarissa

09/13/19

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington

09/12/19

The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. -Chris Van Allsburg

09/11/19

The secret to wisdom is curiosity. -Yoshiko Uchida

09/10/19

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain. -Sara Teasdale

09/09/19

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. -Virginia Satir

09/06/19

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. -Mary Renault

09/05/19

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -Ellery Queen

09/04/19

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur

09/03/19

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. -Joyce Carol Oates

09/02/19

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -Louis Nizer