Yehuda Amichai

A man doesn't have time.
When he loses he seeks, when he finds
he forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loves
he begins to forget.

Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

William B. Sprague

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Dalai Lama

Every day think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life.

Thomas Friedman

Globalization is not the only thing influencing events in the world today, but to the extent that there is a North Star and a worldwide shaping force, it is this system.

- Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999.

Hans Margolius

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE)

William of Ockham

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)

Bishop George Berkeley

“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)

Muhammad Yunus

Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

John D. Rockefeller

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

William Golding

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.

-----From Lord of the Flies

Stephen Covey

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

George Burns

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Note: I found this quote in Tom Layton's email signature.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Anaïs Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Note: I found this quote on Alicia Palermo's profile. She's a proficient translator from Mexico.

Dogen Zenji

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Note: I found this quote in a tweet written by Kirti Vashee on Twitter.

Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all

Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Lao-tzu

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.

Dr. Martin Luther King

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Vince Lombardi

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Nikolai Ostrovsky

"Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world- the fight for the Liberation of Mankind."

Savielly Tartakower

The blunders are all there, on the chessboard, ready to be made.