Gail Sheehy

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

They said eyes are the key to the soul, and after looking into yours, I know you’ve unlocked mine.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.