In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
—Franz Kafka (Austrian Novelist)
Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
—Charles Baudelaire (French Poet)
That one vast thought of God which we call the world.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (British Author, Politician)
There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)
A good case is not difficult to state.
—African Proverb
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)
Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
—George Samuel Clason (American Writer)
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (American Social Reformer)
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (Swiss Theologian, Poet)
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
—Umberto Eco (Italian Novelist)