(H. L. Mencken)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
(General Colin Powell)
Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.
(Ecclesiasticus)
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
(Gaston Bachelard, quoting E. Susini)
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
(Walter Lippmann)
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
(Mary Kay Ash)
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.
(Woodrow Wilson)
When I reached the trailhead and started walking through the harmonious association of huge ponderosa pines, incense cedars, and white firs with its apparently endless diversity of wildflowers, shrubs, grasses, songbirds, and insects, I experienced a novel sense of rightness. Growing up in the suburbs had been an experience of fragmentation as roads and buildings dissected the landscape. The thought that this harmony would continue for dozens of miles without interruption was like relief from a headache so habitual I hadn't known I had it.
(David Rains Wallace)