What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Kurt Vonnegut

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Henry David Thoreau

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

In order to understand the universal perspective,first you have to know more than a version of truth.

Toba Beta

The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

David Plowright

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nate Silver

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Thomas Kempis

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt