It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

To begin, begin.

William Wordsworth

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Bible

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Lynn Johnston

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

Thomas Bulfinch

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

Sanford I. Weill

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

Walter Isaacson

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Babson