“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Tragically Uninvolved
“Any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
- Anton Chekhov
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
- Bertrand Russell
“To know that one life has breathed easier because I have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Internet has shoved us in our own face.”
- Susan Weber
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Life is always walking up to us and saying, “Come on in, the living’s fine,” and what do we do? Back off and take its picture,”
- Russell Baker
