Joseph Zabara, fully Joseph ben Meïr Zabara

Fear God by day, and you'll sleep soundly at night.

Day | Fear | God | Wisdom | God |

Thomas Wolfe, fully Thomas Clayton Wolfe

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying in the darkness, and we know no death.

Darkness | Death | Heart | Wisdom |

James Baldwin, fully James Arthur Baldwin

The future is like heaven--everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Future | Heaven | Wants |

Roland Barthes, fully Roland Gérard Barthes

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Passion | Public | Wants |

Leo Baeck

Piety… respects the little – the little man, the little task, the little duty. Through the little, religion meets the greatness that lies behind.

Duty | Greatness | Little | Man | Piety | Religion |

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. Excessive wealth is neither glory nor happiness.

Glory | Power | Wants | Wealth | Wisdom |

Edward Young

How many sleep who keep the world awake!

Wisdom | World |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

Technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.

Cause | Greatness | Technology |

David Salzer Broder

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Office | Wants |

Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Greatness | Price | Responsibility |

Ma Chih-yüan

A hundred years are no more than the dream of a butterfly. Looking back, how one sighs for the things of the past! Yesterday spring came; this morning the flowers wither. Let us hasten with the forfeit cup before the night is spent and the lamp goes out.

Past |

James Fenimore Cooper

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Character | Existence | Greatness | Individuality | Man | Mediocrity | Will |

William Dement, fully William Charles Dement

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

G. W. F. NULL

[In memory of Dad] Do not stand by my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep – I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. Do not stand by my grave an cry. I am not there. I did not die.

Grave | Memory |

Millicent Fenwick

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.

Influence | Power | Wants | Work |

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“How many times in our comfortable lives,” I asked myself, “have we been moved to rise at half-past two of a winter night to feast and give thanks because we have so lived that we are suddenly pierced to the heart with the sheer blessedness of everyday existence?”

Blessedness | Existence | Heart | Past |