You sin in thinking evil of people, but you often guess right.

Giulio Andreotti, Former Italian Prime Minister and Senator-for-Life

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

Humans can survive three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, three weeks without food, but just three seconds without hope.

Rule of Thumb

Always Be Prepared

Common Variant of the Boy Scout Motto

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

All truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self–evident.

Unknown

We choose to [do these things] not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.

Oedipus Rex

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin