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“Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.”
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“Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.”
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“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
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“We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.”
Source : Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”
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“Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.”
Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.401, Yale University Press
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“From out of pain, beauty.”
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“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
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“Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.”