Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

— Madame du Deffand

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Men argue; nature acts.

— Voltaire

When you call upon a thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

— Patricia Neal

regarding a motto above her father’s desk.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself. . .Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

— James Allen

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

— Mother Teresa

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

Wisdom is knowledge plus: knowledge–and the knowledge of its own limits.

— Viktor E. Frankl

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men:

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool — shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple — teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep — wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise — follow him.

— Arabian Proverb

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. No more deadly harm can be done to young minds than by depreciation of the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

— Ruth Benedict

God does not play dice.

— Albert Einstein

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