If
I consider my life honestly, I see that it is governed by a certain
very small number of patterns of events which I take part in over and
over again…when I see how very few of them there are, I begin to
understand what huge effect these few patterns have on my life, on my
capacity to live. If these few patterns are good for me, I can live
well. If they are bad for me, I can’t.
-- Christopher Alexander
America
is the only country where a significant proportion of the population
believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon landing was
faked.
-- David Letterman
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
-- Shirley MacLaine
Most
of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally
solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for
other people but for ourselves.
-- Nan Fairbrother
People
often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in
answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not
fail by much…But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason
for searching.
-- William Maxwell
Perhaps
this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most
difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be
simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral
problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
-- Carl Jung
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is
not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom
the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of
experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the
standards of thought) no longer exist.
-- Hannah Arendt
When
confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a
solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart
does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because
conditions are never exactly right.
-- Stacy Valner
You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.
-- Warren Buffet
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
People
often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in
answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not
fail by much…But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason
for searching. 
