Today Quotes
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If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.Unknown
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.Unknown
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.William Plomer
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.Wilhelm von Humboldt