"A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance."

“If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.”

“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.”

“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”

Source : Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

“Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.”

“It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles”

“one only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.1514, Delphi Classics

“Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.”

“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”