Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Wilferd A. Peterson

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Mao Zedong

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

John Welch

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace, Odes, 15

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

William Eardley IV

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

J.K. Rowling

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Claude Pepper, (attributed)

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

Michael Bloomberg

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha