"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in."
— Arlo Guthrie
"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
— Harold Rosenberg
"Never give advice unless asked."
— German Proverb
"What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."
— Sonia Taitz
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."
— Judith Martin
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
— Alvin Toffler
"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
— Oscar Wilde