Life, Love, and Disaster

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung