Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)


It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)


I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)


The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
-Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)

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There can be no government without an army
No army without money
No money without prosperity
And no prosperity without justice and good administration.

- Ibn Qutayba (ninth-century Muslim scholar)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
-Peyton C. March, general (1864-1955)

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-Desiderius Erasmus, humanist and theologian (1466-1536)

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
-Carlo Dossi, author and diplomat (1849-1910)

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
-George Steiner, professor and writer (b. 1929)