Indian Proverb

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 3.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

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Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

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Harold Taylor

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

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Albert Camus

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

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Ronald Reagan

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)

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Kurt Vonnegut

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

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Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 5

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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