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“There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.”
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“Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.”
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“You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.”
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“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”
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“How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.”
Source : Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”
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“All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.”
Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press
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“The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.”
Source : "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004. 
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“And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?”
