Category: writer
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A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore de Balzac
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Deepak Chopra
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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
Alice Walker
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I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
Leo Buscaglia
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Ray Bradbury
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus