Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps-- Vladimir Lenin
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.-- Lucille Clifton
You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.-- Bonnie Prudden
How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that
keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive
ourselves. How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we
prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control,
that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have
done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure
pain, to erase suffering, to vanish loss. How easily we can cling
to—worship—the choices we think we could or should have made.-- Edith Eger
Memory is not a straight line. It is like a tree, spreading its branches in all directions.-- Muriel Spark
One looks at maps, and does not truly apprehend the extent and variety of the world.-- John Williams
The most important thing in life is to
stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing
impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.-- Charles Dickens
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fiber and destroys trust.-- Robert Zoellick
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can
rise up And hope and history rhyme.-- Seamus Heaney
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is
silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a
standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have
been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows
on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are
companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.
Books are humanity in print.-- Barbara Tuchman
