Well begun is half done. Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb)

Either war is obsolete or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings

Practice yourself what you preach. Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which h W. Somerset Maugham

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. Marrion Zimmer Bradley

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946