#secret

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#because #children #could #critical #die

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #bother #cure #happy #leisure

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#greatest number #number #offend #people #secret

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#only #secrets #themselves

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#everybody #guesses #kept #secrets #than

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#essential #first #internal #members #reciprocal

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#acts #even #heart #into #mind

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. ↗

— Jane Rule

#love #love is #married #people #secret

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense