I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan, "Parade", March 2
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LaoTzu
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.
John Winthrop
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
There are four lights!
Catain Jean-Luc Picard
If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
Will Rogers, July 15, 1923
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell, Politics and the
Greville Fane's French and Italian were droll; the imitative faculty had been denied her, and she had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. She knew it, but she didn't care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least.
Henry James, Greville Fane from
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Elbert Hubbard
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon an
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comed
We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.
Thomas Merton
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, in Th
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, Ameri
It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. Edwards Deming
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds--and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence, Hov'ring there,I've chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of air.Up, up the long, delirious, burning blueI've topped the windswept heights with easy graceWhere never lark, or even eagle flewAnd, while with silent, lifting mind I've trodThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillispie Magee, Jr., High
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
Marlene Dietrich
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
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