Leo Kanner Quotes

#1. No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

Richard Laymon

#2. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Diane Ackerman

#4. Love rather than fear ... this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope ... surely there is hope for us all.

Bill Hicks

#5. Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

William Shakespeare

#6. The truth is what we say it is ... prove to me this desk is not a cow!

Ray S. Jones

#7. If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

Gertrude Stein

#8. I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

Curtis LeMay

#9. Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and ... and important. But me ... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

Tink

#10. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal
carries the cross of the redeemer
not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.

Joseph Campbell

#11. You've decided that you're not worthy of my love. Who are you to decide who I should love?

Catherine DePasquale

#12. And life is thorny; and youth is vain

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel