Jane Stanton Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

People are only taken seriously as they take themselves. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

People without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

We all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination ... you can make feast of straw. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing! — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock