The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Histo

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

John Ruskin

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

Rick Perry

Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.

Santosh Kalwar

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Philip Pullman

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.

Charles Dickens