“The alternative to perfection of self is perfection of others: Either I will concentrate on me and my welfare or on others and their welfare; in other words, mind my own business or mind other people’s business.”
Leonard E. Read Let Freedom Reign
“If a man starts to run, there’s nothing to do but keep running.”
Louis L’Amour Flint
“The successful man knows something about everything.”
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, their father, quoted by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. And Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper by the Dozen
“Religion stands at the core of culture, central to social relations and material productivity.”
Theodore von Laue The World Revolution of Westernization
“He’s not from the old school. He went to the school they tore down to build the old school.” Announcer on TSN August 20 1998 (possibly not quoted exactly as I lunged for a pen after he said it; I believe it was the Toronto Argonaut-Hamilton Tiger-Cat game)
“Life is too short to be little.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“With no causes to celebrate and no causes to mourn, history is, to paraphrase Elbert Hubbard, one nothing after another.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2005
“Patient students of economics generally... anticipate little good and much evil from schemes for sudden and violent reorganization of the economic, social and political conditions of life.” Alfred Marshall