Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 

~ Flannery O'Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964)

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. 

~ Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980) 

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. 

~ Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (20 Mar 1928-2003) 

It's best to give while your hand is still warm. 

~ Philip Roth, novelist (b. 19 Mar 1933)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

~ Aristotle

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting 

~ Paulo Coelho

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. 

~ John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009)

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. 

~ Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933) 

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 

~ Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971) 

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation's. 

~ James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 

~ Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. 

~ Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

You might be just one person in the world but you might be the whole world to one person. 

~ Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss

Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. 

~ H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933) 

A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

 ~ William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (9 Mar 1763-1835) 

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564) 

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! 

~ George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968) 

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have. 

~ Emile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951)

If you/we are happy to sit at our desk and not take any risk, you/we will be sitting at our desk for the next 20 years.

~ David Rubenstein

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. 

~ Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (27 Feb 1807-1882)