If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
—Carlos Castaneda (Peruvian-born American Anthropologist)
The future is much like the present, only longer.
—Dan Quisenberry (American Baseball Player)
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
—Gerald Massey (English Mystic, Poet)
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
—Mencius (Chinese Philosopher, Sage)
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don’t know we don’t know.
—Donald Rumsfeld (American Government Official)
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
—Neale Donald Walsch (American Spiritual Writer)
A library is a path to the future—find yours there.
—Mary Higgins Clark (American Novelist)
History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
—Hans-Georg Gadamer (German Philosopher)
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
—Patrick White (Australian Novelist)
Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
—Luis Barragan (Mexican Architect)
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
—Edwin Hubble (American Astronomer)
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult… simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.
—Gavin Lyall (English Spy Fiction Writer)
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
—Daniel Goleman (American Psychologist, Author)
All history is a lie.
—Robert Walpole (British Statesman)
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
—Gail Sheehy (American Writer, Journalist)
If you don’t like the question that’s asked, answer some other question.
—Howard Baker (American Politician)
High office is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit, reptiles and eagles.
—Jean le Rond d’Alembert (French Mathematician)