My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...
When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookis...
The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...
Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that ...
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with g...
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
A man who doen't wear a black suite, is not a real man".
Full mind is the mind of stupid man; empty mind is the mind of wise man!
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.
What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.
It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from ...
Every man thinks his own thoughts are best.
Every man has a fool up his sleeve.
He who is a slave of truth is a free man.
If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man.
An old man with a torn sleeve never dishonored anyone.
No wise man takes responsibility for an eighteen-year-old daughter.
