Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

Theodore von Kármán

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Alan Moore

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

African Proverb

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five years, Labor inaugurated the National Health Service, the first and boldest experiment in socialized medicine. It took into public ownership all the vital (and bankrupted) utilities of the coal, gas, electricity and railway industries. It even nibbled at the fiefdoms and baronies of private steel, air transport and trucking. It negotiated the long overdue independence of India. It did all this, in a country bled white by the World War and subject to all manner of unpopular rationing and controls, without losing a single midterm by-election (a standard not equaled by any government of any party since). And it was returned to office at the end of a crowded term.

Christopher Hitchens

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

Benny Bellamacina

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Steve Israel

Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not mingle, are but dreams.

Nathaniel Hawthorne