Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epil

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Michael Crichton

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Jerry Weller

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Doug Coupland

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Ernest Hemingway

It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.

Steve Maraboli

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.Sir?It seems you've managed to retain this even though you are Authority.

Terry Pratchett

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Immanuel Kant