"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."—Mark Twain

"That which you cannot give away, you do not possess—it possesses you."—Ivern Ball

"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices." — Clint Eastwood

"It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." — Mignon McLaughlin

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." — Margaret Thatcher

"A place is yours when you know where all the roads go." — Stephen King

"Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." — Arthur C. Clarke

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.—John Wayne

"God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different." — Unknown

All glory comes from daring to begin. — Eugene F. Ware

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Fall in with it, and turn it your way.—Robert Frost

It’s hard to detect good luck—it looks so much like something you’ve earned. — Frank A. Clark

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. —Unknown

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. —Iara Gassen

Freedom never yet was given to nations as a gift, but only as a reward, bravely earned by one’s own exertions. — Lajos Kassuth

"There’s no labor a man can do that’s undignified—if he does it right." — Bill Cosby

Sadness needs its own time to be. — Karen Berry

"Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security." — Merritt Malloy

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of the consequences." — Norman Cousins

"Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with." — Giacomo Leopardi

We love those people who give with humility, who accept with ease. — Freya Stark

Comfortably Numb, part 2

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look, but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child has grown, the dream is gone.
? Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb, part 1

When I was a child, I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I?ve got that feeling once again.
I can?t explain?you would not understand,
This is not how I am.
?Pink Floyd

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision—he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — The Rev. R. Inman

"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance." - Ethel Waters

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them." - Robert Henri

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." - Alice Duer Miller

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." — Elie Wiesel

"Let your mind alone, and see what happens." - Virgil Thomson

"Good sense is easier to have than use." — James Grady

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” - George Bernard Shaw

"Good sense is easier to have than use." — James Grady

"Love is space and time measured by the heart." - Marcel Proust

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them." - Edward R. Murrow

“Count your age with friends but not with years.” - Anonymous

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." - Shakti Gawain

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic." - Lisa Alther

"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier." - Baltasar Gracian

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." - Gerry Spence

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet." - Nancy White

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Unknown

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it." - Doris Day

“Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.” - Anonymous

"Oh for a book and a shady nook..." - John Wilson

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." - Winston Churchill

"I like life. It's something to do." - Ronnie Shakes

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself." - Charles M. Shultz

"Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish." - Euripides

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” - Dale Carnegie

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man." - Euripides

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow

"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing." - George Washington

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity." - Euripides

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." - Robert McCloskey

"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building." - Steve Jobs

"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future." - Shirley Trusty Corey

"You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face." - Malcolm Gladwell

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie

“If your ship doesn't come in, you have to row out to meet it.” - Unknown

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Big results require big ambitions." - Heraclitus

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

Some cursed fraud

?Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.?
- John Milton

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” Mignon McLaughlin

"Don't fight forces, use them." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

“What we see is mainly what we look for.” - Unknown

"People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you." - Ruben Studdard

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

"To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it." - Jim Beggs

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best." - Frida Kahlo

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman

"He who will not economize will have to agonize." - Confucius

"Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me." - Daniel Akst

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." - Benjamin Franklin

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain

A Writer

"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." - Junot Diaz

"Promote yourself, but do not demote another." - Israel Salanter

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” - Pearl S. Buck

"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are." - Jeph Jacques

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Harold Wilson

"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." - Joseph Addison

"I am a galley slave to pen and ink." - Honore de Balzac

"People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour." - Elizabeth Moon

“Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.” - Gerald Jampolsky

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along." - Paramahansa Yogananda

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that." - Ellen DeGeneres

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." - Tallulah Bankhead

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt." - Rene Descartes

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself." - Harvey S. Firestone

"Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure." - Jason Fried

"We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves." - Francis J. Braceland

"Some people make headlines while others make history." - Philip Elmer-DeWitt

"Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues." - Hugh Prather

"The more liberty you give away the more you will have." - Robert Green Ingersoll

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves." - Maria Edgeworth

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body." - Henry David Thoreau

"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak." - C. Kent Wright

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up." - George Burns

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." - Mahatma Gandhi

"A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love." - Denise Mina

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much." - Francis Beaumont

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - J. K. Rowling

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

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

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjold

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not." - Vaclav Havel

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp

"Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them." - Lee Haney

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself." - Michel de Montaigne

"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One." - Benjamin Franklin

"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think." - Alfred Austin

"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great, anyhow, is the higher achievement." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Lane Allen

"It is better to wear out than to rust out." - Bishop Richard Cumberland

"You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much." - Tove Jansson

"With confidence, you have won before you have started." - Marcus Garvey

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business." - Dolley Madison

"A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind." - Morihei Ueshiba

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive." - Alan Paton

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat." - Socrates

"The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside." - Roger Ebert

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” - William James

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it." - Mark Twain

"Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen." - Anonymous

“If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.” - Woody Allen

"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." - Don Herold

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on while something sitting down." - Charles F. Kettering

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elain Heffner

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." - Buddha

"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole." - Alexander Pope

"One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese proverb

"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever." - Charles Lamb

"For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others." - Eudora Welty

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last." - Greg Evans

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels." - Gustave Flaubert

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde

"There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating." - Melanie Benjamin

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality." - Max Beerbohm

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust

"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." - Steve Jobs

“It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.” - David Crosby

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - Alexander Pope

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." - Baltasar Gracian

"You are no better than you should be." - Francis Beaumont

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” - Abraham Lincoln

"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice." - George Matthew Adams

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." - Sydney Smith

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." - Karl Barth

“When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.” - Catherine Ponder

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." - Thomas Aquinas

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

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing--and when you meet him, he will win." - Ed Macauley

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." - Thomas Moore

"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck." - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." - Jessica Savitch

"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." - Ed Parker

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." - Thomas A. Kempis

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Carrie Fisher

"I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward." - Charlotte Bronte

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve

“Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.” - Ben Johnson

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." - Karl Barth

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." - Karl Barth

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” - Goethe

"Travel is only glamorous in retrospect." - Paul Theroux

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living." - Mary Tyler Moore

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." - Confucius

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." - Khalil Gibran

"Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say."- Matthew Trump

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.” - Joseph Addison

"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well." - Amos Bronson Alcott

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams

"Your spirit is the true shield." - Morihei Ueshiba

"Your spirit is the true shield." - Morihei Ueshiba

"Nothing is worse than active ignorance." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself." - Alice Walker

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” - Ernest Hemingway

"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."- Kathleen Norris

"Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground." - Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon

"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage." - Muriel Fox

"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it." - Howard Newton

"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived." - Amy Grant

“I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." - Ellen Glasgow

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own." - Logan Pearsall Smith

"Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve." - Chinese Proverb

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." - Anatole France

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening." - Randy Pausch

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. " - John Milton

"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed." - Kanye West

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." - Aristotle

"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." - Confucius

“Hobbes: 'Do you think there's a God?' Calvin: 'Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me.'” - Bill Watterson