"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Francis of Assisi
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'“
Isaac Asimov
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
Rabindranath Tagore
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."
Miyamoto Musashi
"Absence is a house so vast, that inside, you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."
Pablo Neruda
“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
Aberjhani
“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the cracks.”
Lady Gaga, Harvard University Commencement Address (2015)