Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. - Katherine Anne Porter, "The Marriage Affair"

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you. - Herbert Hoover

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. - Michel de Montaigne

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. - from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Fairness means knowing when to make exceptions. After all, applying rules equally is easy. Any bureaucrat can do it. It's far harder to know when to bend or even ignore the rules. That requires being sensitive to individual needs, understanding the larger context, balancing competing values, and forgiving transgressions when appropriate.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. - George Scialabba

What we remember is what we become. What we have forgotten is more kindly and disturbs only our dreams. We become resemblances of our past. - John Osborne