But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

China Mieville

Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.

Steve Jobs

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful

Allan Lokos

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Amy Tan

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.

G. W. F. Hegel

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

All writing is rewriting.

John Green

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Karl Marx