“Doubt grows with knowledge.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You earn the right to criticize someone only after you have demonstrated the willingness to help someone.” – Michael Masterson

“For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” – Toni Morrison

“There are two types of confidence. Delusionary confidence, which comes from coddling, and genuine confidence, which comes from accomplishment.” – Michael Masterson

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck

“The surest path to job satisfaction is to work on or for something you care greatly about and/or care greatly about the work you are doing.” – Michael Masterson

“Compassion is probably the only antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he doesn’t but would like to have.” – Socrates

“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on.” – P.J. O’Rourke