Joan Didion Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

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...

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.