Control

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
--Mario Andretti

Nuts

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
--Franz Kafka

Italian

Secret to life, marry an Italian.
--Nora Ephron (her contribution to "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure")

Attention

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
--Simone Weil

Inconceivable

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
--Andre Maurois

Find Them

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them.
--Jim Croce

Dangerous

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
--T. H. Huxley

Late Into the Universe

Intelligent, creative, complex, statistically improbable things come late into the universe, as the product of evolution or some other process of gradual escalation from simple beginnings. They come late into the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.
--Richard Dawkins

Happens

Every time we say Let there be! in any form, something happens.
--Stella Terrill Mann

Something Exciting

I am still expecting something exciting, drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: an uninhibited exchange of ideas.
--Edmund Wilson

New and Retro

Just as it can be good to avoid new stuff just because it's new, it's good to avoid remaining retro just for the sake of remaining retro.
--J.D. Smith

Let Love Flow

What I find so deeply moving is the animal willingness to let love flow and not block it. Never once have I seen a fat dog draw back in shame from a loving hand that offered a belly rub, nor a dog who would turn away affectionate attention because of guilt over past misdeeds.
--Suzanne Clothier

Work

Somewhere in your career your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful, and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
--Ben Kingsley

Bravery

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
--Wendell Phillips

The Story

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it and copy it.
--Jules Renard

Comfortable

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
--Mark Twain

Minority

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
--Ralph Ellison

Survive

Our almost-instinct almost true
What will survive of us is love.
--Philip Larkin

Luck

Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck--and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
--Michael Lewis

The Opposite

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
--Marina Keegan

Fate

To love is to give hostages to fate.
--Jo Coudert