self-control Quotes

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.