Tears are the silent language of grief.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
—Baltasar Gracian
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
It is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it is the magnitude of our courage that counts.
—Matthieu Ricard (French Buddhist Monk)
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
—Martin H. Fischer
I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
—Drew Barrymore (American Actor)
I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)