Elizabeth Kolbert Quote

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

An affected health has come in contact with worry

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...

Hope is a waking dream.

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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...

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...