Reader's Digest Quotes

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.