Be somebody

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Jane Wagner

Rat race

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

Imagine

"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso

Everyone can

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan

Why not now?

"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson

Sunlight remains

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" - Rose Kennedy

Believe and do

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark

Nobility

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young

Love's reach

"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach." - Margaret Cho

Moonshine

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." - H. L. Mencken

Writing

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Robert Heinlein

Never deceived

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." - Samuel Johnson

Work...or play?

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty

. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." ~Plutarch

Who

"Who runs is followed." ~ Proverb, (Dutch)

The weeds

"One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

Adversity and prosperity

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." ~ Victor Hugo

Liberty and the people

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
~John Adams

Up to you

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." ~ Richard Bach

One thing

Those who claim to always be right,
are always wrong about at least one thing.
~Tala Fane

The Fight

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mistakes

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?" - Peter McWilliams

Judgment

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing

"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing." - Albanian proverb

Know oneself

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee

Peace can begin

"It is within the families themselves where peace can begin." - Susan Partnow

It does

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

Nothingness

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery

Not a bad profession

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

Scientific power

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - John Andrew Holmes

An intellectual

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

Questions and Answers

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

The human chain

"The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity." - Elizabeth Stone

Love is

"Love is the reason for it all." - Dorothy Fields

Time vs. Eternity

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle

Humanity

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann

Life is

"Life is full of obstacle illusions." - Grant Frazier

Command of language

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn

Peace

"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by." - Maria Schell

People's assertions

"I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions." - Ann Radcliffe

Three failures

"Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice." - Minna Thomas Antrim

Creative workers

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." - John Cleese

Lies vs. Loneliness

"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them." - Brock Clarke

The soul's joy

"The soul's joy lies in doing." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The veterinarian

"The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter--he's got to just know." - Will Rogers

Happy

"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." - John Stuart Mill

Party

"Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there." - Mickey Friedman

Shakespeare

"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." - William Shakespeare

Undoubtedly

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage." - Claude M. Bristol

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"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty." - Cecil Baxter

"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." - Walter Bagehot

"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good." - Ruth Benedict

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns

Ode to T.F.

Sometimes you predict the words
I stumble over.
You, patient soul, remind me
When to sing my song.

They try to teach us the Way to live,
But who are they to tell us now?
Let us find out for ourselves,
Who, and what, but above all, how.

Wall

A wall is a plan:
Two friends making sure neither
Becomes too friendly.

Snow

Snow falls with the
Silent expectancy
Of a lover
Waiting for the other.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. - Dan Rather

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. - Keri Hulme

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Conceited people never get anywhere, usually because they think they're already there.

There's no need to borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

Having the right to do something doesn't mean it is right to do it.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you will never do.

We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the joke of the century.

Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.

Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.

As soon as you make something idiot-proof, along comes a bigger idiot.

If you step in a puddle, there's no point in blaming the puddle.

"What the hell is wrong with ME?
My mom and dad weren't perfect But still you don't hear no cryin' ass bitchin' from me
Like there seems to be on everybody's CD."
- Saliva, "Click Click Boom"

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive." - Elizabeth Janeway

"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see." - Donald Cargill

"The palest ink is better than the best memory." - Chinese proverb

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." - Elvis Costello

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule." - Stephen King

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything." - Vince Lombardi

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon

"Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes." - Lawana Blackwell

"Put it all on the line for this mining for gold."