"To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him."

“We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.”

“Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.”

“I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.”

“If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.”

“We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!”

Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.170, Chelsea Green Publishing

“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”

“Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.”

Source : Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.