Thus it is that the superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of Heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
~ Confucius
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
~ Lao Zi
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein
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You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~ William Faulkner
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I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.
~ Lewis Mumford
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