Wit & Wisdom

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quoted in the Los Angeles Times

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”

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Bill Moyers, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

Lily Tomlin, quoted in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

A.A. Milne, quoted in The Buffalo News

“We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.”

Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in The Village Voice

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”

Natalie Wood, quoted in Hello Magazine

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

André Gide, quoted in The Milwaukee Courier