Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Margaret Heffernan

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friendswent to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

Niccolo Machiavelli, source date

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

Honore de Balzac

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Gillian Anderson

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Dora Russell