To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

-- Joan Didion

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

-- Wendell Phillips

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

-- Douglas Coupland

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

-- Richard Roeper

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

-- Francois Rabelais

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

-- Ken Follett

Legacy Damian Green

-- Damian Green

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

-- Donna Karan

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

-- John Ortberg