Brendan Francis (1923-1964)

Quotes

• People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

• If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

• If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

• At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

• Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.

• The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

• A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.