Forrest Bard's Inspirational Quotes

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

You can never give away a smile - it always comes back.
-- Anonymous

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
-- Phyllis Diller

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-- Voltaire

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
-- Harriet Martineau

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
-- Wall Street Proverb

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
-- Hermann Hesse

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
-- Alice James

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
-- James F. Byrnes

Praise love and wisdom wherever you find it, and you will find love and wisdom everywhere.
-- Brad Jensen

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist)

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
-- Unknown

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. -- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. -- Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

The more things change, the more they remain... insane. -- Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. -- P. J. O'Rourke

The future is much like the present, only longer. --Dan Quisenberry

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. -- Robert Orben

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. -- William Feather

He that would be a man must first be a nonconformist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. -- Joseph Addison, (1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman)

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. -- Henry David Thoreau

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. -- Friedrich von Schiller

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. -- Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. -- Dan Quayle

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
-- Dan Rather

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- H. L. Mencken

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship. -- Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888, American Author)

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
-- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 197

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

What we play is life. -- Louis Armstrong

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. -- Maya Angelou

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. -- Vic Gold

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -- Orson Welles

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. -- Alexander The Great, (352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King)

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden

Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
-- Albert Pike 33 Degree Freemason from "Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Morals and Dogma" page 103

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. -- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day

'Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops -- at all.
-- Emily Dickenson

The very best athletes, entertainers, and business leaders all have someone in their corner that they can go to for advice, leadership, and teaching. Once you've found your mentor, you'll be well on your way to success.
-- Michael Masterson

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. -- Mark Twain, (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. -- George Best

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. -- Thomas Jefferson

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. -- J. G. C. Brainard

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power." -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. -- Dale Carnegie

What is gained through fear lasts only while the fear lasts. -- Matthew Fox

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -- Woodrow Wilson

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the
ultimate in performance. -- Tim Flores - NFL coach

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was
in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
-- Hank Aaron

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident,
emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. -- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Do not waste a minute-not a second-in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. -- Thomas W. Higginson (1823 - 1911)

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself
on the work before you, well assured that the right
performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

The man who does not take pride in his own performance performs nothing in which to take pride.
-- Thomas J. Watson (1874 - 1956)

Inspirational Quotes - Ability

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

Talent is only the starting point.
-- Irving Berlin

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
-- Herny Ford

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
-- Henry David Thoreau

There. I've done my best. If that won't do, I shall have to wait until I can do better.
-- Victor Heerman

God cannot alter history but historians can.
-- Samuel Butler

I'm old enough to know my limitations and young enough to exceed them. -- Marv Levy (Upon coming out of retirement at 80 to manage the Buffalo
Bills)

Inspirational Quotes - Achievement

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
-- Grenville Kleiser

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what
you should have accomplished with your ability.
-- John Wooden

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
-- William Makepeace Thackera

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. -- Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

I finally got it all together and then I forgot where I put it. -- Unknown

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
-- Donald Trump

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I always wanted to excel. I never wanted to be common or ordinary. -- Rex Maughan, Forever Living Products

Inspirational Quotes - Action

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. -- Jim Rohn

Inches make champions. -- Vince Lombardi

Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-- Henrik Ibsen

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. -- George Bernard Shaw

You never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. -- Irish proverb

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. . -- H. Ross Perot

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol

We learn to walk by stumbling. -- Bulgarian proverb

I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. -- Lance Armstrong

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. -- Confucius

Inspirational Quotes - Animosity Toward Others

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. -- Charlotte Bronte

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -- Matthew Arnold

He who angers you conquers you. -- Elizabeth Kenny

To hold on to animosity is like you taking poison and hoping the other person will die. -- Asha Tyson

Inspirational Quotes - Artists at Work

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as don't paint badly like other people. -- George Moore

An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. -- John Rusking

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -- Edgar Degas

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. -- Eugene Delacroix

Inspirational Quotes - Being Different

To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else --- is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-- e. e. cummings

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. -- Adlai E. Stevenson

Inspirational Quotes - Beliefs

If you believe it can't be done, at least don't get in the way of the person who is doing it. -- Unknown

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
-- Michel de Montaigne

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
-- David Jenkins

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. -- Havelock Ellis

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. -- George Orwell

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

All beliefs are bald ideas. -- Francis Picabia

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. -- G. C. Lichtenberg

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
-- Sigmund Freud

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. -- Samuel Butler

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. -- James Baldwin

Beliefs can lead to very bad day. -- Mandy Evans

Belief is a disease. -- Werner Erhard

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. -- Franz Kafka

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
-- Lord Byron

Inspirational Quotes - Beauty

Stupidity is too often beauty's imperfection.
-- French proverb

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. -- Homer

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? -- Jean Kerr

Inspirational Quotes - Careers and Success

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. -- Plato

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. -- Francoise de Motteville

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. -- Grenville Kleise

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work - not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan
and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
-- Mark Twain

Most saints live to regret their career choice.
-- Bob Stokes

Success Quotes - Achieving Real Success

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan Pearsall Smith

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense..
- Thomas Edison

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
- Shelley Long

Remove failure as an option.
- Joan Lunden

God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; heads you win - tails, you lose.
- Unknown wise person

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
- Unknown wise person

Overnight success only happens in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
- from Real Success Without a Real Job

Ask yourself the secret to your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Richard Bach

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.
- Sir William Walton

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -- Carl Gustav Jung

You can never give away a smile - it always comes back. -- Anonymous

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
-- Phyllis Diller

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-- Voltaire

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
-- Harriet Martineau

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
-- Wall Street Proverb

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. -- Hermann Hesse

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -- James F. Byrnes

Praise love and wisdom wherever you find it, and you will find love and wisdom everywhere. -- Brad Jensen

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist)

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. -- Unknown

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. -- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. -- Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

The more things change, the more they remain... insane. -- Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. -- P. J. O'Rourke

The future is much like the present, only longer. -- Dan Quisenberry

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. -- Robert Orben

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. -- William Feather

He that would be a man must first be a nonconformist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. -- Joseph Addison, (1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman)

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. -- Henry David Thoreau

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. -- Friedrich von Schiller

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. -- Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. -- Dan Quayle

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. -- Dan Rather

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- H. L. Mencken

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship. -- Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888, American Author)

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
-- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 197

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

What we play is life.
-- Louis Armstrong

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
-- Maya Angelou

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
-- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

What we play is life. -- Louis Armstrong

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. -- Maya Angelou

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. -- Vic Gold

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -- Orson Welles

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. -- Alexander The Great, (352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King)

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -- Orson Welles

Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
-- Albert Pike 33 Degree Freemason from "Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Morals and Dogma" page 103

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. -- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day

'Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops--at all.
-- Emily Dickenson

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. -- Bob Hope

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. -- George S. Patton, (1885-1945, American Army General during World War II)

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. -- Thomas Overbury

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. -- William Hazlitt

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. -- Henry Morgan

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -- Malcolm Forbes

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. -- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. -- Alexander The Great, (352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -- Socrates

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. -- Oscar Wilde

The way we see the problem is the problem. -- Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

See things as they are and write about them. Don't waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know. -- Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W. C. Fields

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
-- Robert M. Hamilton

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. -- Rick Polito, Marin, Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. -- Barbara Tober

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. -- Rene Descartes,(1596-1650, French Philosopher, Scientist)

You are mightier than any situation or experience which can come to you. -- Frank Whitney

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
-- Mother Teresa

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. -- Publilius Syrus

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -- Walter Elliott

Begin the day with friendliness
and only friends you'll find
Yes, greet the dawn with happiness;
Keep happy thoughts in mind.
-- Frank B. Whitney

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie, (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer )

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. -- C. S. Lewis, 'The Pilgrim's Regress'

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -- Horace

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. -- Samuel Johnson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

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

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough. -- Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. -- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing
against the hardships that my father went through
in order to get me to where I started.
-- Bertrand Hubbard

Those who trust us educate us. -- T. S. Eliot

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as
the need for a father's protection. -- Sigmund Freud

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children
the richest inheritance. -- Ruth E. Renkel

That is the thankless position of the father in the
family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
-- J. August Strindberg

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. -- Ching Ning Chu, (Chinese-American Businesswoman, Author)

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker, 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. -- Mary Hirsch

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. -- Dr. Frank Crane

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. -- Cynthia Ozick

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. -- Unknown

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. -- Alice Kahn

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
-- P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. -- Samuel Johnson

Intuitive perceptions of truth are the daily bread to satisfy our daily hunger. -- Ralph Waldo Trine

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

An idea is salvation by imagination. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute:
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin, and then the work will be completed.
-- Goethe

In every nook and niche in life, from the latest medical breakthrough to the next discovery in outer space, nothing is ever final or fixed or as yet perfectly fulfilled, and in this fact may lie life's greatest meaning. The answer to the nagging question, "What's left for me?" is "Everything!"
-- Marcus Bach

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -- Christopher Morley

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
-- Dandemis

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
-- George Eliot

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. -- Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -- John Updike

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, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. -- Walt Whitman

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. -- Miguel de Cervantes

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. -- Samuel Butler, (1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist)

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. -- Earl Warren

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. -- Carl Jung

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. -- Clementine Paddleford

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operations. -- George Santayana

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. -- James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Take care of your body so that the soul can flourish is a divine service. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant

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

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. -- Rita Mae Brown, (1944-, American Writer)

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. -- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

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, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -- Henry S. Haskins

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
-- Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. -- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter Drucker

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. -- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

Every single thing that happens in your life is a gift, and when you see it in this way, you have your answer. -- Tom Johnson

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves. -- Sean O'Casey

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. -- Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. -- Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? -- Don Marquis

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

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. -- Richard Lewis

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. -- William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
-- Liberace

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, October 2002

Every experience I have is my own creation, for the purpose of teaching me what I am asking to have, and bringing me closer to an understanding of my own unique value. -- Brad Jensen

The very best athletes, entertainers, and business leaders all have someone in their corner that they can go to for advice, leadership, and teaching. Once you've found your mentor, you'll be well on your way to success. -- Michael Masterson

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? -- George Carlin

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
-- Marlon Brando

Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off. -- Ellen DeGeneresMy wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -- Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. -- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. -- Gail Pool

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -- Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06

What worries you masters you. -- Haddon W. Robinson

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-- Dale Carnegie

The very best athletes, entertainers, and business leaders all have someone in their corner that they can go to for advice, leadership, and teaching. Once you've found your mentor, you'll be well on your way to success. -- Michael Masterson

In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in body. -- Ralph Waldo Trine

We are like newborn children,
Our power is the power to grow.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. -- Jerry Gillies, (American Author, Speaker)

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. -- Maya Angelou

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness. -- Louise L. Hay
Even if you don't have any money, you can create for your mind the reality that what you do have is overwhelming abundance. -- from Anxiety Culture

Abundance isn't a matter of acquiring how much money you desire; it's a matter of being happy with how much you presently have. -- Unknown wise person

Your wealth can only grow to the extent you do. -- T. Harv Eker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. -- William J. H. Boetcker

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor ... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm
greeting. -- Mother Teresa, (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
-- Audre Lorde

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. -- Kin Hubbard

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are. -- David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's

No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past? -- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edwards

A cult is a religion with no political power. -- Tom Wolfe

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. -- Leonard Bernstein

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. -- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don`t will find an excuse! -- Leo Aguila

Within the framework of any event, you may experience the excitement of knowing you are traveling upon an eternal path, and that there is no need to look back with regret, remorse, or even questions. You are here now. Use your mind to live fully in the only place you can ever really be.
-- J. Douglas Bottorff

What if this weren't a hypothetical question? -- Unknown

Men who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. -- William Ralph Inge

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. -- Fred Allen

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -- Saint Jerome

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -- Henry Winkler

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. -- Washington Irving

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. -- Lao-Tzu

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -- Carl Sandburg

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), "Letters to Lucilius - On the value of advice (Epistle XCIV)"

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Dalai Lama

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. -- Coco Chanel

History is bunk. -- Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -- Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -- Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford

Don't find a fault; find a remedy. -- Henry Ford

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -- Henry Ford

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -- Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. --Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. -- Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. -- Henry Ford

The more you think, the more time you have. -- Henry Ford

The world suffered darkness until somebody discovered electricity. It suffered crawling around on the face of the earth until technology was developed so we could fly and drive. It suffers limitation, not because the Infinite imposes limitation, but because the world does not understand its freedom. -- Ernest Holmes

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. -- Soren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855, Danish Philosopher)

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist)

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi, (1913-1970, American Football Coach)

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
-- Dorothy Thompson

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a
bogeyman around, turn on the light. -- Dorothy Thompson

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. -- Unknown

Your heart is the power core of all your success... no matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn't in it... then you will be without it. -- Doug Firebaugh

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened
our very existence.

It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown...individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government. -- Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, 5/21, 1992 Bilderburgers meeting. Unbeknownst to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.

History is the present. That's why every generation
writes it anew. But what most people think of as
history is its end product, myth. -- E.L. Doctorow

All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
-- Demosthenes

False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news.
-- Adrienne Rich

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -- J. K. Rowling

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting diseases and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god - Society, The State, The Government, The Commune - must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. -- Rose Wilder Lane

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley, (1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator)

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
-- Wendy Wasserstein, Isn't It Romantic, 1983

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. -- Sir William Osler

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. -- Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. -- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead

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

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Trine

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without passion you don't have energy, with out
energy you have nothing. -- Donald Trump

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. -- Khalil Gibran

The future may be made up of many factors but where
it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind. -- Li Ka Shing, Chinese Businessman

One person with passion is better than forty people
merely interested. -- E. M. Forster

There is no greatness without a passion to be great,
whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
-- Anthony Robbins

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human
soul on fire. -- Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you. -- Bill Cosby, Comedian

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. -- Calvin Coolidge

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant, (1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor)

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly. -- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. -- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. -- Betty Friedan

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. -- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. -- Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach

The world suffered darkness until somebody discovered electricity. It suffered crawling around on the face of the earth until technology was developed so we could fly and drive. It suffers limitation, not because the Infinite imposes limitation, but because the world does not understand its freedom. -- Ernest Holmes

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. -- Eric Butterworth

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant

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

What worries you masters you. -- Haddon W. Robinson

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -- Dale Carnegie

We are like newborn children,
Our power is the power to grow.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. -- Jonathan Swift

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. -- Joseph Addison

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. -- Hugh Prather

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. -- Edward Chapin

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. -- Anatole Broyard

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. -- Warren Buffett

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. -- Will Rogers

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. -- Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks, 1944

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -- Walter Elliott

Money often costs too much. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. -- Morrie Schwartz

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

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. -- Cullen Hightower

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. -- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. -- Catherine de Hueck

My friend is one... who take me for what I am. -- Henry David Thoreau

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. -- Peter De Vries

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. -- Bertrand Russell

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic)

As businesspeople, it is our job to provide more and better products and services to our customers, to help them solve their problems, meet their needs, and achieve their ambitions. -- Michael Masterson

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. -- Marian Wright Edelman

The mob leader will count on emotional contagion...Emotions are far more contagious than the measles. This fact of emotional contagion was very important to Hitler. -- George Estabrooks, Psychologist

It is well recognized that almost any emotional excitement increases the suggestibility of the individual, though the explanation of the fact remains obscure. -- William McDougall, from The Group Mind, printed in 1920

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. -- Justice Felix Frankfurter

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop

Begin the day with friendliness
and only friends you'll find
Yes, greet the dawn with happiness;
Keep happy thoughts in mind.
-- Frank B. Whitney

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Oh blessed simplicity, that seizes swiftly what cleverness, tired out in the service of vanity, may grasp but slowly. -- Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. -- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Author/Critic/Naturalist

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. -- Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author and Speaker

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. -- Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, American Preacher/Orator/Writer

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci, (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

In every nook and niche in life, from the latest medical breakthrough to the next discovery in outer space, nothing is ever final or fixed or as yet perfectly fulfilled, and in this fact may lie life's greatest meaning. The answer to the nagging question, "What's left for me?" is "Everything!" -- Marcus Bach

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. -- Anonymous

The golden rule for every business man is this:
"Put yourself in your customer's place."
-- Onson Swett Marden

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

Age is no guarantee of maturity. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. -- Steve Jobs

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. -- Robin Morgan

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. -- Laurence J. Peter

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -- Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love,which includes not only others but ourselves as well. --- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. -- Aung San Suu Kyi

When anger rises, think of the consequences. -- Confucius

The secret of being boring is to say everything. -- Voltaire

Underpromise; overdeliver. -- Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. -- Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. -- Og Mandino

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. -- Margaret Mitchell

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -- Samuel Johnson, (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. -- Robertson Davies

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. -- Zig Ziglar

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
-- Emily Dickinson

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. -- Joan Baez

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? -- Robert Browning

You may delay, but time will not. -- Benjamin Franklin

Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. -- John Fischer

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

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. -- Cyril Connolly

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -- John W. Gardner

The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. -- Jan Ashford

In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in body. -- Ralph Waldo Trine

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. -- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Our home is in the light, and our true role is to create endlessly from the infinite storehouse of possibilities located at the virtual level. -- Deepak Chopra

You cannot learn from anything that you blame on others. -- Brad Jensen

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
-- Unknown

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be vigilant and guard your mind against negative thoughts.
-- The Buddha

I let negativity roll off my back like water off a duck's back. If it is not positive, I didn't hear it. -- George Foreman

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like. -- George Burns, (1896-1996, American Comedy Actor)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
-- Woody Allen

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

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. -- Saki

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. -- Dan Seligman, in 'Forbes Magazine'

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. -- Epictetus

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice. -- Jay Leno, O Magazine, February 2003

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. -- Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003

That which I see is that which unalterably comes to pass. -- Marcus Bach

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The influence of repetition on crowds is comprehensible when the power is seen which it exercises on the most enlightened minds. This power is due to the fact that the repeated statement is embedded in the long run in those profound regions of our unconscious selves in which the motives of our actions are forged. -- Gustave Le Bon in The Crowd, published in 1897

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge. -- Adolf Hitler

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it. -- George Eliot

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

It is good to die before one has done anything
deserving death. -- Anaxandrides

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. -- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps
justice alive. -- Earl Warren

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
-- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face. -- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. -- Jeanne Moreau

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead

The only paradise is paradise lost. -- Marcel Proust

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -- Robert Frost

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -- John Ruskin

Patience will achieve more than force. -- Edmund Burke,(1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman)

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
-- Theodore Hesburgh, (American Educator)

It is only the first step that is difficult. -- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. -- Ivan Pavlov

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore

The most profound statements are often said in silence. -- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. -- Robert Byrne

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. -- Edward Teller

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. -- Michel de Montaigne

To see things in the seed, that is genius. -- Lao-Tzu

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. -- Henry Winkler

Every journey the soul travels takes her higher.
-- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. -- Michael Caine

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. -- James Oppenheim

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -- Frank Tibolt

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. -- Bhagavad Gita, (c. BC 400, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata)

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. -- Fran Lebowitz

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. -- Peter Ustinov

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. -- Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. -- Brendan Francis

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Every journey the soul travels takes her higher.
-- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Luck marches with those who give their very best. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr., (American Author of "Life's Little Instruction Book" Series)

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. -- Francis Quarles

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. -- Shakti Gawain

A Hospital is no place to be sick. -- Samuel Goldwyn

Someone's boring me. I think it's me. -- Dylan Thomas, in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. -- Robert Frost

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -- Jerry Seinfeld

We grow when we remember we are not what we appear to be. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

If you think you're outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself,
Before you can win the prize.
-- Author Unknown

Nothing builds confidence like accomplishment. -- Thomas Carlyle

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. -- William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997, American Novelist and Philosopher

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. -- Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American Social Writer

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. -- Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970, American Psychologist

Wives are like alligators. You don't have to love them, you don't necessarily have to like them. But you do have to feed them. -- Anonymous

What is an acorn? It is an oak tree in the making. What is an egg? It is the first stage of performance that will lead to a bird. What is man? A man is what he can be. -- Eric Butterworth

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about. -- Joseph Campbell

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. -- Frank Herbert

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. -- Edgar Watson Howe

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. -- Muhammad Ali, (1942-, American Boxer)

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. -- Abraham Lincoln

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Adventure is just bad planning. -- Roald Amundsen

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -- Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. -- G. K. Chesterton

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. -- Phil Jackson

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. -- Jane Goodall

Do something new each day - something you have never done. -- E. Stanley Jones

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. -- James Oppenheim

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -- Frank Tibolt

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry R. Luce

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. -- Pat Benetar, (American Singer)

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people. -- P.G. Wodehouse

Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service. -- Martin Luther King

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. -- Arthur Wellesley, (first Duke of Wellington)

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. -- Dorothee Solle

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. -- Emily Dickinson

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer

Though synchronistic phenomena occur in time and spacethey manifest a remarkable independence of both these indispensable determinants of physical existence and hence do not conform to the law of causality. -- C. G. Jung

Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. -- James Redfield. 1993. The Celestine Prophecy

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. -- Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things. -- Isaac Newton

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. -- Carl G. Jung (1875 - 1961)

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, The Tao of Psychology

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. -- Albert Einstein

All things blow you to your goal. When you know this secret, you are afraid of nothing, because you can use everything. -- E. Stanley Jones

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

Success is 99 percent failure.-- Soichiro Honda, (Japanese businessman, founder of Honda Motor Corp.)

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. -- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -- Carl Jung

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

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. -- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. -- George C. Marshall

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. -- Jules Renard

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -- Abigail Adams

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people. -- P.G. Wodehouse

Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service. -- Martin Luther King

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. -- Jules Renard

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -- Abigail Adams

Everyone has the power of greatness. Not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service. -- Martin Luther King

Love brings us into being and sends us forth into the world so that we may become all that we are capable of being. -- James Dillet Freeman

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. -- Yogi Berra, (1925-, American Baseball Player)

What you cannot enforce, do not command. -- Sophocles

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.-- George Bush, "All the Best, George Bush"

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. -- Publilius Syrus

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed. -- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
-- Daniel Webster

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly. -- Mitch Hedberg

All things blow you to your goal. When you know this secret, you are afraid of nothing, because you can use everything. -- E. Stanley Jones

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. -- Milton Berle, (1908-, American Actor, Entertainer)

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -- Harry Golden

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. -- David Starr Jordan

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. -- Charlotte Bronte

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. -- Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. -- Jean de La Fontaine

All general statements are false. -- Unknown, The Ultimate Law

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -- John J. Plomp

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. -- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. -- Bernard M. Baruch

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. -- Irving Berlin, 1958

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy)

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. -- Al Capone

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The average person thinks he isn't. -- Father Larry Lorenzoni

You never lose that which is for your highest good, under any circumstances. When it seems that you have lost something, it is because it is no longer best for you. -- Catherine Ponder

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -- Harry Golden

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard

All general statements are false. -- Unknown, The Ultimate Law

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -- John J. Plomp

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

Love brings us into being and sends us forth into the world so that we may become all that we are capable of being. -- James Dillet Freeman

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. -- Eric Hoffer

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -- Ludwig Van Beethoven, (1770-1827, German Composer)

Never, never, never give up! -- Winston Churchill

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -- John D. Rockefeller

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. -- Sir Richard Francis Burton

I dwell in possibility... -- Emily Dickinson

Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave. -- David Mahoney

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. -- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. -- Douglas Adams

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. -- W. S. Gilbert

Confusion is always the most honest response. -- Marty Indik

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. -- Mason Cooley

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. -- P.T. Barnum, (1810-1891, American Showman, Entertainer, Circus Builder)

Never, never, never give up! -- Winston Churchill

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -- John D. Rockefeller

Behind every sorrow is a deeper joy. Behind every setback is a greater opportunity. -- Steve Pavlina

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -- John Enoch Powell, (1912-, British Statesman)

Every artist was first an amateur. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? -- Jane Austen

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. -- George Herbert

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. -- Charles de Montesquieu

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. -- Henry Ford

If we do not like what we are getting out of life, we must consider carefully what we are giving to life. -- Georgiana Tree West

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. -- Brigham Young, 1801-1877, American Religious Leader

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist and Founder of Ford Motor Company

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. -- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish Dramatist/Novelist/Poet

When you judge other people remember one overriding axiom: 'Everybody is having a hard time'. Everyone is insecure. Everyone is hassled. Everyone is tired - we all need more sleep. Everyone wishes he had more courage, more money and better social skills. Everyone wants more glamour in his life, and we all desperately need more laughter. Few can figure out how they ended up living the life they lead. Don't be misled by flippant talk; it's a battle for everyone... Give people a break. It's not easy doing a life. -- Joshua Halberstam

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to life. -- Celia Luce

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. -- William Bennett

Friendly is at the epicenter of your business, but it's only a seed that must be germinated, and then nurtured -- every day. The value of friendly is beyond measure -- it costs nothing, yet it's worth a fortune. And it's the most contagious disease known to man -- catch it. -- Jeffrey Gitomer

Talk less--you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more--and make fewer blunders. -- Mark McCormack

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -- Thomas McCauley

I've always been in the right place at the right time. Of course, I steered myself there. -- Bob Hope

Never let things which matter most be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Marion D. Hanks

It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. -- Aldous Huxley

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting it off. -- Anonymous

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. -- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. -- Democritus

Your best, largest customers are your competitors' most highly targeted prospects. If you don't make them feel special, someone else eventually will. -- Art Sobczak

The newborn child is almost an exact duplicate of an empty computer, although superior to such a computer in almost every way. . . . What is placed in the child's brain during the first eight years of his life is probably there to stay. If you put misinformation into his brain during this period, it is extremely difficult to erase it. -- Glenn J. Doman, How to Teach Your Baby to Read

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. -- Frank A. Clark

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. -- M. Russell Ballard

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -- James Earl Jones

Assume that every person you meet has a sign around his neck which reads..."Please make me feel important." -- Anonymous

Hope refuses to let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. -- Neal A. Maxwell

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. -- Wayne Dyer

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends. -- Euripedes

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property. -- Confucius

Success or failure in a business is caused more by mental attitudes than by mental capacities. -- Walter Dill Scott

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. -- Liberace

With the exception of clapping hands, the sweetest sound a mortal ever hears is that of his own name. It assures him that he is important enough to be remembered. -- Robert Quillen

If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need have you for tomorrow? -- Rabbi Nahman of Breslov

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement. -- Gary Ryan Blair

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. -Mary Hemingway

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf. -- Unknown

The rapidly changing world breeds obsolescence and requires us to be continually engaged in preparing ourselves for the future. -- L. Tom Perry

Give to your enemy forgiveness, to your opponent tolerance, to your friend your heart, to all men charity, to every child a good example, and to yourself respect. -- Sterling W. Sill

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. -- Alexander Graham Bell

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. -- Booker T. Washington

You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra

The easiest way to make your old car run better is to check the prices of a new car. -- Unknown

Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting. -- Herbert Samuels

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. -- Jacqueline Brisken

Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do. -- Jim Rohn

Be a noble person in life. The tide of circumstances and the tussle of happenings may toss us hither and thither, may buffet us up and down, but stay noble in your thoughts and actions. -- Swami Chinmayananda

Beware of what you set your mind on, for that you will surely become. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. -- Dave Barry

Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -- Anonymous

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember, jobs are owned by the company, YOU own your career! -- Earl Nightengale

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. -- Garrison Keillor

When I'm depressed I ask myself, what is one thing I can do today that will be construc­tive for myself or someone else? I try not to live in the past. -- Christopher Reeve

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with. -- Brian Tracy

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun. -- Christina Rossetti

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. -- Audrey Hepburn

Neil Armstrong once said, "You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is: don't leave until you have solved both problems." -- Jim Rohn

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. -- Jim Rohn

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford

There are no short cuts to any place worth going. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland

The people we should get even with are the ones who have done good to us! -- Narvel Sherzinger

Men can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. -- William James

A sales manager once told me, "My sales people like to listen--to themselves." -- Unknown

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -- Abraham J. Heschel

There is no thrill quite like doing something you didn't know you could. -- Anonymous

Not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein

Adversity is an experience, not a final act. -- Dr. Michael Leboeuf

Anyone who thinks they know all the answers isn't up to date on the questions. -- Frank Lawrence

Everything has a price. There is a price to pay for success, ful­fillment, accomplishment, and joy. There are no freebies. If you don't pay the price that is needed for success, you will pay the price of failure. Preparation, work, study, and service are required to achieve and find happiness. Disobedience and lack of preparation carry a terrible price tag. -- James E. Faust

Everything has a price. There is a price to pay for success, ful­fillment, accomplishment, and joy. There are no freebies. If you don't pay the price that is needed for success, you will pay the price of failure. -- James E. Faust

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. -- Unknown

With a smile, everyone speaks the same language. -- Dutch Proverb

The power of accomplishment is often a hairline between success and failure. In fact, we are often able to do a task because we think we are able to do it. -- Proverb

I can live for two months on a good compliment. -- Mark Twain

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. -- Jack Penn

Your FUTURE is how you use your PRESENT to correct your PAST. -- Anonymous

Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. -- August B. Black

Trying to build self-esteem on the comments and acceptance of others is like trying to build a house on quicksand. -- Brad Wilcox

Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves. -- David B. Haight

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -- Wayne Gretzky

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you. -- Anonymous

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you never try. -- Beverly Sills

Remember, you are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow, and the next day, and everyday where your thoughts will take you. -- Thorpe B. Isaacson

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. -- Jim Rohn

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. -- Mark Victor Hansen

Your heart is the power core of all your success... no matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn't in it... then you will be without it. -- Doug Firebaugh

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Charles F. Kettering

If you are content with the best you have done, you will never do the best you can do. -- Martin Vanbee

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -- Robert H. Goddard

Someone has said, "The size of a man may be measured by the size of the things that make him angry." How true that is! To become upset and infuriated over trivial matters gives evidence of childishness and immaturity in a person. -- ElRay L. Christiansen

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. -- Harvey Mackay

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present. -- Brian Tracy

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. -- Mme. Du Deffand

Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas Holdcroft

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. -- Les Brown

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out. -- Grace Speare

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. -- Brian Tracy

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

All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney

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

When somebody shares, everybody wins. -- Jim Rohn

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. -- Denis Waitley

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn start­ing from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. -- Brian Tracy

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am,' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are. --- Frederick Collins

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. -- Nido Qubein

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between. -- Pat Riley

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -- Confucius

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what makes you go beyond the norm. -- Cicely Tyson

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. -- Oprah Winfrey

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all. -- Brian Tracy

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone. -- Hyrum W. Smith

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. -- Jim Rohn

You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. -- Vaclav Havel

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
--"Think Different", Apple Computers Advertisement

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to
grow into. -- Mahatama Gandhi

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose
infinite hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. -- Earl Nightingale

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. -- Anita Roddick

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year... equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster. -- Vinton Cerf

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. -- Lydia M. Child

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
-- Euripides, 'Rhesus'

It's better to be a company than to work for a company. -- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person - not only changed, but for the better. -- Arthur Gordon

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain

Every false note attests to the truth of harmony. -- Frank Whitney

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. -- Sacha Guitry

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. -- Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. -- Meladee McCarty

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. -- Glenn Doman

You don't learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you've ever believed. And yet, all this is a matter of faith - the faith that there is a truth to be found. It is another paradox: To truly question, you must truly have faith. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -- Robert Fulghum

Behind every sorrow is a deeper joy. Behind every setback is a greater opportunity. -- Steve Pavlina

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -- Pubilius Syrus

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde, (1856-1900, British Author, Wit)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. -- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. -- Peter Ustinov

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. -- Patricia Moyes

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. -- Anonymous

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. -- Donald Trump

Bless a thing, and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. To bless means to bring forth good in a situation or personality, whether there seems any good to be brought forth or not. -- Catherine Ponder

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. -- Peter McArthur

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -- Helen Keller, (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. -- Persian Proverb

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. -- Henry David Thoreau

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -- Sarah Bernhardt

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. -- Alanis Morissette, Reader's Digest, March 2000

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. -- W. C. Fields

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

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. -- William Gibson

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person - not only changed, but for the better. -- Arthur Gordon

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain

Every false note attests to the truth of harmony. -- Frank Whitney

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. -- Sacha Guitry

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. -- Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. -- Meladee McCarty

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. -- Glenn Doman

You don't learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you've ever believed. And yet, all this is a matter of faith - the faith that there is a truth to be found. It is another paradox: To truly question, you must truly have faith. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -- Robert Fulghum

Behind every sorrow is a deeper joy. Behind every setback is a greater opportunity. -- Steve Pavlina

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -- Pubilius Syrus

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars. -- Oscar Wilde, (1856-1900, British Author, Wit)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. -- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. -- Peter Ustinov

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. -- Patricia Moyes

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. -- Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. -- Anonymous

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. -- Donald Trump

Bless a thing, and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. To bless means to bring forth good in a situation or personality, whether there seems any good to be brought forth or not. -- Catherine Ponder

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. -- Peter McArthur

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -- Helen Keller, (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. -- Persian Proverb

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. -- Henry David Thoreau

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -- Sarah Bernhardt

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. -- Alanis Morissette, Reader's Digest, March 2000

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. -- W. C. Fields

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

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. -- William Gibson

Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
-- Benjamin Franklin

You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark. -- Annie Dillard

The greatest challenges in life are those that are closest to your purpose of being. To the point that if you wish to know your central purpose in life, you need only look at where your greatest challenges are. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -- Willa Cather, 1873-1947, American Author

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. -- Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American Social Writer

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. -- Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and Achievement Expert

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. -- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

If you don't risk anything you risk even more. -- Erica Jong

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. -- Baltasar Gracian

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort. -- Confucius, (BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher)

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. -- Tommy Cooper

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. -- Sir Thomas Beecham

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. -- George Carlin

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. -- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -- H. L. Hunt

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. -- La Fontaine

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. -- Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04

I walk without hurry,
I work without strain.
I live without aging,
For I am in tune with the Infinite!
-- G. Richard Rieger

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn new lessons, some of which you may enjoy a great deal - and some you may enjoy not at all. But see to it that these learning experiences never end. Think of success as a process that you want to continue, not a status that you reach once and for all. -- Denis Waitley

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. -- James Russell Lowell

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. -- Will Rogers

I think it would be a good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. -- Alan Corenk

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. -- George Burns

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. -- Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove'

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -- Walter Anderson

Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else." -- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. -- Whoopi Goldberg

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the
assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. -- Edwin H. Friedman

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Eric Hoffer

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. -- Anais Nin

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's
house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change. -- Audre Lorde

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -- Alan Cohen

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic. -- Alvin Toffler

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the
stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think
anew and act anew. -- Abraham Lincoln

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -- Willa Cather, 1873-1947, American Author

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. -- Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American Social Writer

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. -- Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and Achievement Expert

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost. -- Christopher Paolini

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service -- to yourself and to others. -- Oprah Winfrey, (1954-, American TV Personality, Actress, Author)

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. -- Unknown

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. -- Carrie Fisher

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Bryan

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

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. -- John Keats

I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future. -- Dr. Ana M Guzman

Man's keynote is freedom. -- Frank Whitney

Music is purposeless play, an affirmation of life, not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living. -- John Cage

The first wealth is health. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. -- Woody Allen, (1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian)

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. -- Jean Paul Richter

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. -- Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. -- A. R. Ammons

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. -- Richard Diran

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. -- Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. -- George Bernard Shaw

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. -- Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw

Winners see the act of winning in advance - vivid, multidimentional, textured, clear. Champions know that "What you see, is who you'll be". -- Denis Waitley

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn new lessons, some of which you may enjoy a great deal - and some you may enjoy not at all. But see to it that these learning experiences never end. Think of success as a process that you want to continue, not a status that you reach once and for all. -- Denis Waitley

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. -- Sir Edward Appleton

The big thieves hang the little ones. -- Czech Proverb

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. -- Bertrand Russell

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)

Begin the day with friendliness
and only friends you'll find
Yes, greet the dawn with happiness;
Keep happy thoughts in mind.
-- Frank B. Whitney

In every nook and niche in life, from the latest medical breakthrough to the next discovery in outer space, nothing is ever final or fixed or as yet perfectly fulfilled, and in this fact may lie life's greatest meaning. The answer to the nagging question, "What's left for me?" is "Everything!" -- Marcus Bach

A day you waste is one you can never make up. -- George Allen, (American Football Coach)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Bryan

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -- Henry David Thoreau

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. -- William James, (1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author)

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. -- Henry George

September tries its best to have us forget summer. -- Bern Williams

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

Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost. -- Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. -- Scott Adams

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. -- Jimmy Breslin

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Be a song of love for your universe. Stop asking what's wrong, and think instead of the things you have left undone, and do them with joy. -- Brad Jensen

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -- Henry David Thoreau

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest
that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. -- Jan Glidewell

We need not destroy the past. It is gone! -- John Cage

You always pass failure on the way to success. -- Mickey Rooney

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -- Helen Keller

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance. -- Akhenaton, (1375 BC, Egyptian King, Monotheist)

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
-- John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. -- James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -- Oscar Wilde

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. -- Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. -- Henny Youngman

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. -- Bruce Grocott

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. -- G. K. Chesterton

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. -- Abigail Adams

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -- Erica Jong

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. -- Chuang Tzu, (c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese Philosopher)

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. -- George Santayana

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. -- Og Mandino

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles M. Schulz

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. -- Emo Phillips

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-- Don Marquis

One of these days is none of these days. -- H.G. Bohn

Beauty is both a path toward inner peace and a path into the world. The recognition of beauty - within your self, others, objects, architecture, animals and nature - can create a warm sanctuary for the soul in a daily life.
-- C. Forrest McDowell, PhD

I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup

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

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. -- Bertolt Brecht

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
-- Elaine Gill

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. -- Jewish Proverb

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

It's like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else's story. -- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. -- Mark Twain, (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own. -- J. Paul Getty

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. -- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451"

The secret of being boring is to say everything. -- Voltaire, 1694-1778, French Writer and Philosopher

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. -- Charles Lindbergh, 1902-1974, American Aviator

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French Moralist and Essayist

And since we are all one, the energy you invest in your little corner of the world pays off in every other portion as well. -- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman