Zadie Smith Quote

To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.