Men in all ways are better than they seem

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

Humphry Davy

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Ben Hecht

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Heraclitus

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Wayne Dyer

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Burt Lancaster

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of