I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
—Desmond Tutu (South African Anglican Priest)
One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.
—Catherine II of Russia (Russian Empress)
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
—Dan Quayle (American Head of State)
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
—Werner Heisenberg (German Theoretical Physicist)
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
—Humphry Davy (British Chemist)
Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.
—Marlo Morgan (American Novelist)
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
—John Quincy Adams (American Head of State)
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
—Miyamoto Musashi (Japanese Buddhist)
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
—B. K. S. Iyengar (Indian Hindu Yoga Teacher)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne (English Children’s Books Writer)
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom.—When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again.—But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
—A. A. Milne (English Children’s Books Writer)