“I consider myself to be an expert of sorts on retirement. Not because I’ve studied the subject, but because I’ve retired three times.” – Michael Masterson
John D. Rockefeller on Perseverance
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.” – Stephen Colbert
“Conservatives think leftists have no brains. Leftists think conservatives have no heart. I agree with both of them.” – Michael Masterson
“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant
“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.” – Herodotus
“Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.” – Mao Zedong
“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” – Anton Chekov
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo