The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have... →
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during... →
Jo Bonner
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them... →
Katherine Boo
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the... →
Daniel Boone
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite... →
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the... →
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or... →
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
Robert Boswell