Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.
—Paul Valéry
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.
—Mary Parker Follett
The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.
—Julia Butterfly Hill
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
—Peter Drucker
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
—Yasutani Roshi
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
—Thomas Friedman
Q: What's the difference between religion and patriotism?
A: When a dog howls at the moon, that's religion. When a dog barks at a stranger, that's patriotism.
—Unknown
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
—Japanese proverb
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
—Mignon McLaughlin
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
—Henri Matisse
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
—Adela Rogers St. Johns
Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity—as long as you don't point out that people are different.
—Colin Quinn
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
—James Thurber
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
—Suzanne Gordon