../Aphorisms

1. I hope at least the following will endure: My trust in the people, and my faith in men, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love.

   Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

2. I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

   Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. I don't need to know the name of a bird to understand that its song is beautiful.

   Unattributed

4. It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

   Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers

5. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small brid will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

   D.H. Lawrence

6. Quand le sage montre la lune, l'imbécile regarde le doigt.
   
   When the wise man points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.

   Unattributed