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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, in Wealth and Poverty

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe, in War and Peace

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin, in Vice and Virtue

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

Molly Ivins, in Law and Politics

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Let's have some new clichés.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Art and Literature

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra, in Wisdom and Ignorance