Courant Institute Quotes & Sayings

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. — Hosea Ballou

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team. — Keith Rabois

The soul must support its own supremacy or die. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do. — Brian Tracy

Everything large enough to love eventually disappoints you, then betrays you, and finally, forgets you. But the things small enough to fit into a shoebox, these stay as they were. — Anthony Marra

Perhaps it is so with everyone, that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness. — John Steinbeck

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. — Eleanor Catton

The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens. — Marc Secchia