Vince Lombardi, on our self-worth
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
E.B. White, on luck (from One Man’s Meat)
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence self-made men.”
Sam Rayburn, on compromise
“If you want to get along, go along.”
John Adams, on government
“A government of laws and not of men.”
Alfred North Whitehead, from The Concept of Nature
“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
Itzhak Perlman, on teaching
“One of the main things about teaching is not what you say but what you don’t say. When you hear someone play, you have to work out the way they do things naturally and then leave them alone, because you want the naturalness to be there still.”
Aristotle, from Politics
“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”
Franz Kakfa, from The Trial
“It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
Samuel Butler, from Note-Books
“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
William Faulkner, from Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”