"The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind."
- Abhijit Naskar
"Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?"
- Michele McKnight Baker
"My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves."
- Veronica Blade
"But then something happened, Ray, something amazing. Something..."That white cop sitting next to me? He took a long look at my mother when she came in, just like, absorbed her, and then without even t..."
- Richard Price
"The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves."
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"This is not a how-to book.It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book.In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images i..."
- Judith Mason
"Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying."
- Austin Kleon
"When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success."
- Charles F. Glassman
"... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong."
- George Friedman
"while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together."
- Monica Ali