When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

George Orwell

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Calvin Klein

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

Source Unknown

The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face

Source Unknown

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Ezra Pound

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

John Geddes

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Charles Hodge

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Franco Nero

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams