Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous