3 December 2020 David Ben-Gurion Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I haven’t heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I’m listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
3 December 2020 Linda Lavin Making a film of a work you’ve played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you’ve worked out the behavior and life of a character.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
3 December 2020 Henry L. Stimson The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
3 December 2020 Joseph Henry Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
3 December 2020 Chanakya There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
3 December 2020 Wernher von Braun For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
3 December 2020 Tim Ferriss Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.
3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one’s beloved.
3 December 2020 John Frusciante For me it’s important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
3 December 2020 Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Jim Ramstad American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.
3 December 2020 Lukas Foss I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
3 December 2020 Carl Karcher If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
3 December 2020 Bodhidharma And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
