Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.

Pancho Segura

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

Dennis Muren

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Ursus Wehrli

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Alan Dershowitz

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Anon.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle

Gaiven Clairmont

The Lord being the author both of mirth and gravity, is it not lawful in itself for the truth to use either of these ways, when the circumstances do make it lawful?

Martin Marprelate