"On cannot be precise, and still be true."

“The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.”

“I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.”

Source : Source: saseye.com

“So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.”

“For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.”

“No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

“Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

Source : "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

“Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “THE VENUS SERIES - The Amtor of Venus Collection: Complete Edition (Pirates of Venus, Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Mucker, Pellucidar, The Moon Maid, Tarzan at the Earth's Core and many more”, p.26, e-artnow

“I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.”