Morning Coffee Quotes

A Winter's Night in Chicago just before snow (Dec 3, 2010)

"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong."
- Sydney J. Harris

"Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
- Walt Whitman

"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
- Eric Hoffer

"There are two kinds of failures:  those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Talleyrand)

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."
- H. L. Mencken

"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
- Harold Geneen

"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
- Whitney Young

"It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time."
- Mark Twain

"True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."
- Elbert Hubbard

"The mind cannot long act the role of the heart."
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld