"Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant."

“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”

“There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black

“I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.”

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

Source : Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

“I grew up in a house with very few books.”

“I came, I saw, and I KICKED Stone Cold's ASS!”

“Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.181, Penguin UK

“A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.”