Wendell Johnson

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

There is no mistake in nature.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.