The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Protestant Theologian)
In moments of progress the noble succeed, because things are going their way: in moments of decadence the base succeed for the same reason: hence the world is never without the exhilaration of contemporary success.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over… your problem won’t improve with age.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Scratch the surface of any thinking ideologue and you’ll find doubts. Ask, “Ever wondered whether the other side might be right?”
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German Writer)
The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)
A radical is one of whom people say ‘He goes too far.’ A conservative, on the other hand, is one ‘who doesn’t go far enough.’ Then there is the reactionary, ‘one who doesn’t go at all.’ All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term progressive.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
—Steve Jobs (American Entrepreneur)
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)