Buschmann Quotes & Sayings

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide

I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it. — Mary Karr

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. — Joseph Campbell

- Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary. — Paulo Coelho

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible. — Henning Mankell

Remus, always the underdog's friend, was kind to short and rather slow Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor, whom James and Sirius might not have thought worthy of their attention without Remus's persuasion. Soon, these four became inseparable. — J.K. Rowling

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, — Anant Agarwal

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves. — Confucius

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Lord Henry Wotton

When my legs hurt, I say: Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! — Jens Voigt

I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had. — Jorge Luis Borges