When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Simone Weil

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow

Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Storm Jameson

It is from the education of the new generations that we will especially be able to expect a real moral progress. It is important first of all to develop in it (or 'him', the next generations...) self-control, love of truth and solidarity spirit.

African Spir

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Don Johnson

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

Mitch Albom

Be an opener of doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell