“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Octavia E. Butler book Imago
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Octavia E. Butler book Imago
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City (November 21, 2006)
2007, 2008
“Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!”
Laurie Notaro American writer
Source: Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Bashō Matsuo book Oku no Hosomichi
Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Oku no Hosomichi
Variant: The journey itself is my home.
“9 : A Journey Without Journeying, p. 11.”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
Misattributed
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
His signature line at the end of all his correspondence, as quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle (16 December 2006) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/16/BAGI9N0MOA1.DTL