If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

John Cowper Powys

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Brian Tracy

Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way...

Aeneid

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Nigella Lawson

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Michael Chabon

It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantryhe staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial calvary. The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Superhuman effort isn't worth a d--n unless it achieves results.

Ernest Shackleton

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

Kenny Loggins

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

Anthony de Mello