B. D. Schiers

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Insight emerges out of silence.

What will your children be teaching your grandchildren?

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Nothing endures but change.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Awareness without action is worthless.

I am not young enough to know everything.