It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Dream on my Dear, and renounce temporal obligations.

Dead Can Dance

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Peter Singer

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

John Opie

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

Aldous Huxley

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

John Lubbock

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Scottish Proverb

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Judy Blume

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Howard Gardner