I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....

Martin Luther King Jr.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so.

Leo Tolstoy

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

Earle Birney

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Sheryl Sandberg

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

Oscar Wilde

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop