"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin
"Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way." - Confucius
"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..." - Winston Churchill
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy." - Khalil Gibran
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for
revealing them to the trees." - Khalil Gibran
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education." - Martin Luther King Jr
"From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance." - Dalai Lama
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." - Mother Teresa
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
"I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need." - Thomas Jefferson
"We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time" - Joseph Addison
"Convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain." - Aesop
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder." - Thomas Aquinas
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." - Isaac Asimov
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too." - Marcus Aurelius
