Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Sophocles

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Sir Winston Churchill

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Colette

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Iyanla Vanzant

History is the distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Howard Gardner

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Julien Benda

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts