05/27/16

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. -Washington Irving

05/26/16

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin

05/25/16

The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. -Eduardo Galeano

05/24/16

The Golden Rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you. -David Augsburger

05/23/16

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. -Joe Ryan

05/20/16

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. -Harriet Lerner

05/19/16

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. -Pierre Beaumarchais

05/18/16

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. -Thornton Wilder

05/17/16

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holiday

05/16/16

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer

05/13/16

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

05/12/16

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall. -Bernard Malamud

05/11/16

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana

05/10/16

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. -Carl Sagan

05/09/16

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -R. Buckminster Fuller

05/06/16

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

05/05/16

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

05/04/16

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

05/03/16

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. -Saadi Shirazi

05/02/16

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. -Laurence Sterne

04/29//16

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival. -Roger Zelazny

04/28/16

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. -Spider Robinson

04/27/15

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -Elie Wiesel

04/26/16

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. -Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort

04/25/16

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr

04/22/16

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. -Gordon B. Hinckley

04/21/16

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Lucy Larcom

04/20/16

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -Margaret Thatcher

04/19/16

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. -Chris Grosser

04/18/16

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. And schools. At a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. –Carrie-Anne Moss

03/11/16

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -Jon Bon Jovi

03/10/16

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. -Lydia M. Child

03/09/16

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. -A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

03/08/16

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. -Malcolm X

03/07/16

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. -W. Clement Stone

03/04/16

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

03/03/16

Don’t go through life, grow through life. -Eric Butterworth

03/02/16

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -William James

03/01/16

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -Carol Burnett

2/29/16

The more things you do, the more you can do. -Lucille Ball

02/26/16

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

02/25/16

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. -Eric Idle

02/24/16

When you write, you can't avert your eyes. -Richard Goodman

02/23/16

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Heraclitus

02/22/16

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because every day is different. -Jorge Luis Borges

02/12/16

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead. -Maxwell Maltz

02/11/16

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -Albert Schweitzer

02/10/16

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass

02/09/16

God loves you, but he loves your enemies too. - Rev. Desmond Tutu

02/08/16

Words are the small change of thought. -Jules Renard