When you’re finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you’re going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people?
—Frank Borman (American Astronaut)
Leaders don’t inflict pain—they share pain.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite … and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.
—Russell M. Nelson (American Mormon Religious Leader)
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
—Jules Amedee Barbey d’Aurevilly (French Novelist)
Revenge in cold blood is the devil’s own act and deed.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
—Saul Alinsky (Community Organizer)
Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy’s bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.
—Sally Kempton (American Spiritual Teacher)
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
—David P. Gardner (American Educator)
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
—Gerald W. Johnson (American Journalist)
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
—Susan Sontag (American Writer, Philosopher)