In charity there is no excess.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
—Edwin Markham (American Poet)
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.
—Ingmar Bergman (Swedish Film and Stage Director)
Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. If you can go to bed feeling beaten up and rise the next morning ready to keep listening and learning, then I believe you can lead.
—Jeffrey Immelt (American Businessperson)
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
—Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Head of State)
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)
Develop purity in yourself if you wish to encourage others to follow the path of purity. Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.
—S. N. Goenka (Burmese Mediation Teacher)
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
—Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish Philosopher, Writer)
Nothing succeeds like success.
—Alexandre Dumas pere (French Novelist, Playwright)
All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency.
—Alistair Cooke (British-American Journalist)
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
—Yogi Berra (American Sportsperson)
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
—Theodore Hesburgh (American Catholic Educator)
Pity makes suffering contagious.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)