Any plan imperfectly executed is better than no plan perfectly executed.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Helen Schucman

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Charles Hughes

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Oscar Wilde

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Jane Campion

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Andy Goldsworthy

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Andrea Thompson

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries