"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

“Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.”

“Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.”

“I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.”

“I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.”

“We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.”

Source : John Gay (1818). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.41

“The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”

“The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.”

Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.