"When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other." - Margaret Wheatley

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." - Dr. David M. Burns

"History never looks like history when you are living through it." - John W. Gardner

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present." - Thomas Fuller

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world." - Margaret Mead

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero

"It is just the little touches--after the average man would quit--that make the master's fame." - Orison Swett Marden

"A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty." - Nadia Boulanger

“A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.” - George Crabbe

"Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own." - Linda Berdoll

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his." - George S. Patton

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." - Blaise Pascal

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me." - Simone de Beauvoir

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." - Theodore Roosevelt

"I don't go around regretting things that don't happen." - Virgil Thomson

“It is not good to know more, unless we do more with what we already know.” - R. K. Bergethon

"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back."- Mick Jagger

"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." - J. B. Priestley

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Earl Mac Rauch

"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." - Ambrose Bierce

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

"There is no substitute for hard work." - Thomas A. Edison

"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare." - Mike Myers

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." - Jane Austen

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." - Rita Mae Brown

"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." - John Lancaster Spalding

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men." - Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.” - Bob Dylan

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."- Nancy Reagan

"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." - Helen Rowland

"Never eat more than you can lift."- Miss Piggy

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." - Albert Guinon

"I dream, therefore I become." - Cheryl Renee Grossman

"My friends are my estate."- Emily Dickinson

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." - Aleister Crowley

"While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world." - Meryl Streep

"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone." -Carlos Castaneda

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." - Mary Pickford

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there." - Stephanie Klein

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." - George Sand

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you." - Lillian Hellman

"We are the people our parents warned us about." - Jimmy Buffett

"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision." - Lord Falkland

"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." - Bruce Cockburn

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." - Blaise Pascal

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." - Voltaire

"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread." - Georges Bernanos

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." - John F. Kennedy

"When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it." - Ugo Betti

"The family is the country of the heart." - Giuseppe Mazzini

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." - Agatha Christie

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.” - Francis Bacon

"Endure the present, and watch for better things." - Virgil

"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside." - Louise Nevelson

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place." - Stephen Wright

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past." - Evan Esar

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets." - Unknown

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." - Milan Kundera

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives." - Euripedes

“Those who trust us, educate us.” - George Eliot

"How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality." - Christina Baldwin

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins

"Read in order to live." - Gustave Flaubert

"Read in order to live." - Gustave Flaubert

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists." - Jean Rostand

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists." - Jean Rostand

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit." - Andrew Carnegie

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.” - John Cheever

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." - Doctor Who

“I was never less alone than when by myself.” - Edward Gibbon

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." - George Lois

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." - Benjamin Franklin

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." - Izaak Walton

"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." - Jonathan Winters

"By the work one knows the workman." - Jean De La Fontaine

"It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them." - Dalai Lama

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” - Bertrand Russell

"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly." - Christopher Fry

“We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover

"Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you." - Wil Wheaton

"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered." - Jean Ingelow

"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days." - Ecclesiastes

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Success

"Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it." - Eric Schmidt

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Don Marquis

"Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does." - Evan Esar

"There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." - Carol Matthau

"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." - Michael Masser and Linda Creed

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." - Unknown

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." - Malcolm X

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment." - Freeman Dyson

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." - Ray Bradbury

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds."- Cindy Chupack

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel de Montaigne

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.” - Henry Miller

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."- Francesco Guicciardini

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

The Blast of War

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
- William Shakespeare

"So little time, and so little to do." - Oscar Levant

"Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?" - Kirby Larson

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't." - Mignonette McLaughlin

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." - George Orwell

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there." - Herb Caen

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Dan Herold

“My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."” - Marcus Valerius Martial

Nothing in the world is permanent

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ou

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." - William Morris

"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." - Beverly Sills

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." - Henry Kissinger

"We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation." - Ivan Illich

“America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote.” - Unknown

"When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate." - Pamela Ribon

"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."- Ronald Reagan

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty." - Frank Herbert

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning." - A. E. Housman

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." - Thomas Sowell

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." - Sydney Smith

"The only cure for grief is action." - George Henry Lewes

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars." - Arthur C. Clarke

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

“Success is a journey...not a destination.” - Ben Sweetland

"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.” - Bob Edwards

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - G. K. Chesterton

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." - Kurt Vonnegut

"No one forgives with more grace and love than a child." - Unknown

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." - G.K. Chesterton

"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." - Arthur Stringer

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito

"The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously." - Kevin Bacon

"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied." - Henry George

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire

Male and female

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman." - Margaret Fuller

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you." - Elmer Davis

“Opposition is true friendship.” - William Blake

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." - Steve Jobs

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people." - Mary S. Calderone

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." - Mae West

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." - John Ciardi

"If you believe everything you read, better not read." - Japanese Proverb

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - JRR Tolkien

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. — Kurt Lewin

"Discreet stops make speedy journeys." - Proverb, (Spanish)

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

"A bad horse eats as much as a good one." Proverb, (Danish)

"The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." - Henry David Thoreau.

"You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den." - Chinese proverb

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." - Leo Tolstoy.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein.

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." - Robert Frost.

"Trust in God, but tie your camel." - Proverb, (Arabian)

"Before God we are all equally wise... and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein.

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama.

"There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." - James Branch Cabell

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Forbes

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." - Yogi Berra

“Your goals, minus your doubts, equals your reality.” Ralph Marston

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." - Duke Ellington

"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money." - Johnny Carson

"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them." - Stephen Hawking

"It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." - Charlie Chaplin

"There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid." - Gandhi

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." - Euripides

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them." - Rodney Dangerfield

Starfish

A man was jogging down the beach after a major storm had just come through the area. He was dismayed by the huge number of starfish that the storm had washed up on the beach. He thought that there was nothing he could do because of the immense numbers. As he continued down the beach he saw an old man throw something into the water. As he got closer, he saw the old man walk a little farther down the beach, bend over, pick up a starfish and throw it back into the water. As the jogger approached, the old man stopped again, bent over, picked up another starfish and was about to throw it into the water. The jogger stopped and asked "Why are you doing that? There are thousands of starfish on the beach. You can't possibly make a difference." The old man looked at the starfish, threw it back into the water, then replied, "I made a difference to that one, didn't I?"

"It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody." - Agatha Christie

"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." - Alistair Cooke

"I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle." - Bill Clinton

"Never to suffer would be never to have been blessed." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Take chances. When rowing forward, the boat may rock." - Chinese Proverb

"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves." - Germaine Greer

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." - Jane Austen

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it." - Stephen Vizinczey

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford

"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes." - Goethe

"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." - Frederick Douglass

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up." - Vince Lombardi

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." Gracian

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville

"You are only as good as the team you have behind you." - Jim Palmer

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." - William Congreve

"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewing

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler

"It's never just a game when you're winning." - George Carlin

“We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.” - Helen Keller

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." - Iris Murdoch

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life." - Robertson Davies

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

"When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you." - Anonymous

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical." - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"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

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." - James Thurber

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." - Thomas Fuller

“He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.” - Unknown

"Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day." - French Proverb

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis

"We are exactly where we have chosen to be." - Vernon Howard

“Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.” - Unknown

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." - Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." - Bertrand Russell

"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." - Edwin Schlossberg

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." - Dave Barry

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself." - Paul Hawken

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden

"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family." - Joseph Brodsky

“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.” - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody." - W. S. Gilbert

"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." - Eleanor Hamilton

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." - Duke Ellington

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." - Carl Jung

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” - William Shakespeare

"It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think." - Rosie O'Donnell

"When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies." - Hugh Macleod

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!" - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic people of good will." - J. Arthur Thomson

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." - Fred Thompson

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." - Salvador Dali

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store." - Dr. Seuss

"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog." - Caroline K. Simon

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." - Ayn Rand

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends." - J. K. Rowling

"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." - Evan Esar

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine." - Henry S. Haskins

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day." - Lillian Carter

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

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." - Arthur Koestler

"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." - Harry S Truman

"Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence." - Benjamin Haydon

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt

"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge." - Edward Chilton

“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators." - Will Rogers

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content." - Helen Keller

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

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid

"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." - Erica Jong

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu

“The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.” - Charles Browder

“Give no time to finding fault of criticism.” - Marvin J. Ashton

“He that is angry at a feast is rude.” - George Herbert

"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth." - Scott Westerfeld

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." - David T. Wolf

"The gods too are fond of a joke." - Aristotle

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." - Joseph Addison

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Gloria Naylor

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." - Eric Hoffer

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." - Peter De Vries

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." - Rebecca West

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” - George Bernard Shaw

“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.” - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Habit is stronger than nature.” Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"A ship in a calm sea doesn't travel far." - Unknown

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” - Thomas Jefferson

"After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done." - Unknown

“It is better to have a little than nothing.” Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.” - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.” - Lord Chesterfield

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” - Edward Gibbon