"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
- Sue Monk Kidd
"...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable..."
- Michel de Montaigne
"Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion."
- Criss Jami
"Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose."
- Carol Shields
"You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip."
- Frank Herbert
"The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a ta..."
- Hilary Mantel
"Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider."
- Harold Bloom
"Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others."
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those tha..."
"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual alw..."