"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." - Albert Einstein
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"We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations." - Paulo Coelho
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
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"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." - Dick Cavett
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"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it." - Ray Bradbury
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"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains." - John Muir
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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci
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"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing
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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte
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"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid." - Sara Zarr
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"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality." - Daniel Webster
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." - Quaker Proverb
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"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once." - Paulo Coelho
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"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it." - Ali Vincent
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James A. Baldwin
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne
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"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be." - Molly Wizenberg
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"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elaine Heffner
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character." - Hosea Ballou
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"We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner
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"Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world." - Agatha Christie
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"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun
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"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." - W. C. Fields
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"God answers knee-mail." - Author Unknown
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"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." - Steven Wright
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"Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke
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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." - Bethania McKenstry
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"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus - The Matrix
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"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word." - Goran Persson
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"'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself." - Samuel Smiles
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial." - C.H. Spurgeon
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Jean Paul Richter
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"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good." - Ruth Benedict
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"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government." - Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." - Thomas J. Watson
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"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God." - Augustine
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" - Ray Bradbury
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Jacob Braude
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"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is." - Hugh Macleod
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"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality." - Bertrand Russell
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"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." - Lydia M. Child
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"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks
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"Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest." - Colleen Wainwright
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"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - Sydney J. Harris
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." - Orson Welles
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"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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