"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." - Sigmund Freud
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." - Thomas Fuller
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas A. Edison
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." - Cicero
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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
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"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice." - George Matthew Adams
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"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson
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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck
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"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions." - Walter Lippmann
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." - Cyril Connolly
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." - Bertrand Russell
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
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"Never place a period where God has placed a comma." - Gracie Allen
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"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." - John Dewey
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
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"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." - Enrico Fermi
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"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name." - Evan Esar
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"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen." - Sidney Lumet
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"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will." - Grenville Kleiser
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides
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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
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"It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." - Marlene
Dietrich
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"People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know." - James F. Hind
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"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
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"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughan
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"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." - Joan Klempner
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"Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story." - Don Snyder
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." - John Muir
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"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." - Ayn Rand
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"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
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"Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship." - Alfred A. Montapert
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"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success." - Albert Pike
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"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." - Norman Mailer
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"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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"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
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"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." - Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark." - Barbara Hall
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"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." - Saint Francis de Sales
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"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them." - Stephanie Klein
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." - Leo Tolstoy
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"By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?" - Jackie Mason
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." - Dale Carnegie
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
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"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." - Madeleine L'Engle
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler
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"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them." - Matthias
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." - Colette
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost

"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves." - Larry McMurtry
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"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." - Alexander Hodge
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"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts." - Clare Booth Luce
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome K. Jerome
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"I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile." - Robert A. Ward
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"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" - Irv Kupcinet
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"Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God." - Author Unknown
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"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin
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"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." - Dr. Rob Gilbert
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself." - Samuel Johnson
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"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." - Philip Adams
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir Winston Churchill
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it." - Roald Dahl
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
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"A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink." - John Heywood
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"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." - Graham Greene
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"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

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious." - Og Mandino
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." Charles Baudelaire
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"And then the moon, like to a silver bow, New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night, Of our solemnities." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." - John Ruskin
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Murray Hopper
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"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
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"I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting." - Marta Gottfried
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"September tries its best to have us forget summer." - Bern Williams
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