James Osborne > James's Quotes

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
― Winston Churchill

“The very best writing will invite you in so completely you will become unaware that you are reading it.”
― Mel Hinds, My First Mentor

“About Differences: Those who would believe in a higher power by whatever name must also believe that same higher power made all things. On that basis, people of good character will recognize that some people are different from ourselves, in color, gender, speech, opinion, lifestyle, and in other ways. Different is not an evaluation. As I taught my children while they were growing up, "Different is only different." Celebrate differences for therein lies the basis for much of what we learn in life.”
― James Osborne

“The true measure of a person's worth is found not in wht they own but in how they treat themselves and others." -- James Osborne”
― James Osborne

“We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the best version of ourselves.
-- Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life”
― James Osborne

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights.”
-- Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.
(Often wrongly attributed to Thomas Jefferson)”
― Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos