How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld, (1613-1680)
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.
--Oscar Wilde
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BCE)
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
--William Blake
If you don't like being alone, you may not like the person you're with.
--Peggy Dugan
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
--Carl Gustav Jung, (1875-1961)
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
--Abraham Maslow
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
God protect me from self-interest masquerading as moral principles.
--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
--J. Krishnamurti, philosopher (1895-1986)
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
--Michael Pollan
We started out like Romeo and Juliet but ended in tragedy.
- Milhous van Houten
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
--Benjamin Spock, (1903-1998)
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
--Viktor Frankl, (1905-1997)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
--Theodore Roosevelt, (1858-1919)
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
--Talmudic Saying
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts...
--Shakespeare, (1564-1616)
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
--James Corbett (Boxer)
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881)
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BCE)
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