Quotes from Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.

People are only taken seriously as they take themselves.

it's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles

people without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.

i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

we all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

If you bluff you can't falter. You must tell a story your opponent can believe and make him believe it. It an odd way, you must believe the story yourself. And you can only do that if you believe in yourself.

Never trust a poker player.

There is no point in dwelling on dashed hopes or what might have been. I knew I had to clear my mind, learn from my mistakes, make peace with fate's little merry pranks, and forge ahead. The great truth of poker—and of life—can be summed up in two words: "Next hand.

Where there's smoke, there's fraud.

Greta coined the phrase, "You are who you eat with.

The key to life is imagination.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.