Fame’s pedestals are revolving; no wonder great celebrities act queerly when invited to come off them.
—Minna Antrim (American Writer, Epigrammist)
A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.
—Italian Proverb
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
—Caroline Schoeder (American Aphorist)
I feel convinced that every man has given him of God much more than he has any idea of, and that he can help on the world’s work more than he knows of. What we want is the single eye that will see what our work is, the humility to accept it, however lowly, the faith to do it for God, the perseverance to go on till death.
—Norman Macleod (Scottish Priest, Social Reformer)
Real poverty is lack of books.
—Colette (French Novelist, Performer)
Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Author, Aviator)
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
—Paul W. Litchfield (American Industrialist)
Leaders are people who do the right thing. Managers are people who do things right … a profound difference.
—Warren Bennis (American Management Consultant)
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
—Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (British Sufi Mystic)
You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born Author, Scholar)
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns so soon to hatred.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)