Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne US author (1804 - 1864) Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world The Law of Thumb Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Elizabeth I English queen 1558-1603 (1533 - 1603) Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. David Armistead It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius Analects Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965) All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 - 1592) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine French poet (1621 - 1695) |