Jay Warner > Jay's Quotes

“Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
― Thornton Wilder

“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.”
― William Whewell

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
― Robert Service

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory