Alice Sebold Quote

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Bec...

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.