The Week (US)

Wit & Wisdom

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“When everything is coming your way, you’re

in the wrong lane.”

Comedian Steven Wright,

quoted in Boston.com

“Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”

George Eliot, quoted in

Forbes.com

“The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way

you treat yourself.”

Beyoncé, quoted in

OprahMag.com

“The opposite of love is not hate—it is indifferen­ce.”

Writer and activist Elie Wiesel, quoted in Winston

Salem, N.C., Journal

“An open mind, like an open mouth, should close

on something.”

G. K. Chesterton, quoted in

First Things

“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”

Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz,

quoted in the Montreal Gazette

“I don’t have inspiratio­n.

I only have ideas. Ideas and deadlines.”

Comic book writer Stan Lee, quoted in The Guardian (U.K.)

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