Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) 

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. 

~ Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) 

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. 

~ T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965) 

No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. 

~ William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962) 

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. 

~ Bruce Springsteen, musician (b. 1949) 

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. 

~ Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) 

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. 

~ John Updike, writer (1932-2009) 

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. 

~ Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE) 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. 

~ Harper Lee, writer (b. 1926) 

Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling. 

~ As read in a blog.....

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. 

~ Iroquois Nation Maxim 

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. 

~ Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)  

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings -- many of them not so much. 

~ John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. 

~ Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850) 

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. 

~ Hans Hofmann, painter (1880-1966) 

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. 

~ Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (1492-1556) 

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. 

~ Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) 

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. 

~ Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) 

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. 

~ Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)