Helen Clark MacInnes
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.Collection: Positive
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.Collection: Pain
Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.Collection: Expectations
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.Collection: Mean
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.Collection: Discovery
Civilization is a perishable commodity.Collection: Civilization
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.Collection: Greek
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.Collection: Barbarians
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.Collection: Friendship
Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?Collection: People
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.Collection: Self
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.Collection: Men