An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Carl Sandburg

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

B. W. Powe

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

Charles Dickens

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adolf Hitler

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

Steve Jobs