Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help small men up by tearing big men down. 4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 5. You cannot lift the wage-earner up by pulling the wage-payer down. 6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 8. You cannot establish sound social security on borrowed money. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a mans initiative and independence. 10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker, (from hi

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

James Taylor

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.

Wallace Stevens, Letters

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

David Suzuki

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Bible

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Thomas Jefferson

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Danish proverb

Men of science in former ages worked in secret, and instead of publishing their discoveries, taught them in secret to carefully selected pupils.

Alfred Percy Sinnett

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

J.K. Rowling

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci