William Least Heat Moon:

"What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

Churton Collins:

"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour."

Bernard Shaw:

"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."

John Oliver Hobbes:

"A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies."

Naploean:

"The best way to keep one's word in not to give it."

La Bruyere:

"The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours."

Shakespeare:

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

Lord Chesterfield:

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishment add lustre, and many more people see than weigh."

Ben Jonson:

"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory."

Benjamin Desraeli:

"Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him."

Elizabeth Bibesco:

"Attributing our own temptations to others, we give them credit for victories they have never won."

Chateaubriand:

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light."

Hazlitt:

"Everyone in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; nine out of ten have the inclination."

D. H. Lawrence:

"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions."

Lord Chesterfield:

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

Prince De Ligne:

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never be at rest."

Emerson:

"No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too."

Albert Camus:

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

Lichtenberg:

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."

Eric Hoffer:

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

Stendhal:

"One can acquire anything in solitude except character."

Albert Guinon:

"People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company."

Lord Shaftesbury:

"When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so."

Leo Shestov:

"If you want people to envy you your sorrows or your shame, look as if you were proud of it. If you have enough of the actor in you, rest assured, you will become the hero of the day."

Sydney Smith:

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."

Vauvenargues:

"When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him."

Marquis De La Grange:

"When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice."

La Rochefoucauld:

"Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike."

Marcus Aurelius:

"I often marvel that while each man loves himself more than anyone else, he sets less value on his own estimate than on the opinion of others."

Confucius:

"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself."

Amiel:

"Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not."

Jung:

"Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is good reason for it. There is always something inferior there, although not just where we presuade ourselves that it is."

Cervantes:

"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."

Emerson:

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

Thomas Fuller:

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

"Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine."

Dr. Samuel Johnson:

"Almost every man wastes a part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."

Jean Rostand:

"We alone know that those whom we really resemble are not at all those whom we seem to resemble."

Vauvenargues:

"We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognise in others what we hide from ourselves."

Elizabeth Bowen:

"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all around."

Cesare Pavese:

"When one has made mistake, one says: ' Another time I shall know what to do,' and what one should say is: 'I already know what I shall do another time'."

W.B. Yeats:

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

Robert Mallet:

"It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize."

Elias Canetti:

"People love as self-recoginition what they hate as an accusation."

F.H. Bradley:

"Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is."