Albert Schweitzer on success

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.