“ For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials. Bernd Heinrich Professor
“ There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. Bernd Heinrich Professor
“ Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. Bernd Heinrich Professor
“ The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves. Ralph Washington Sockman Writer
“ That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along. Jodi Picoult Author
“ A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable. Ryszard Kapuscinski Journalist
“ Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain. Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President
“ How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? John Updike Novelist
“ Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. John P. Kotter Author