Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

People are more than just the way they look.

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

People need to know what their jobs are.