Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

"You either change things or you don't.  Excuses rob you of power and induce apathy."

Agnes Whistling Elk

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."

Albert Camus

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everything is

Albert Einstein

Institutions are in a moral sense impotent unless that are supported by the sense of responsibility of living individuals.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."

Albert Ellis

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to."

Ally McBeal (character)

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."

Anais Nin

"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."

André Gide, The Fruits of the Earth

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." 

Anna Louise Strong

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In order to laugh, you must be able to play with your pain

Annette Goodheart

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."

Arabic Parable

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."

Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it."

Baruch Spinoza

"Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

Benjamin Franklin

The golden Age was never the present age

Benjamin Franklin

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Bertrand Russell

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." 

Bertrand Russell

"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable.  It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

Bill Bradley

"Acceptance, goodwill, and respect are the cornerstones of successful communication and exchange--ones that cross all barriers of class, gender, race, and ability."

Bob Abramms-Mezoff & Diane Johns

Character is power

Booker T. Washington

"You do not know what is in you—an inexhaustible fountain of ideas."

Brenda Ueland

"In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view."

Buddha

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha

"He is able who thinks he is able."

Buddha

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

C. G. Jung, Psychological Reflections

....there are many ways on being human. 

Carl Sagon

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument then why I have one. 

Cato the Elderr

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A Beard

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Charles Duell, 1899

Religion is belief in a supreme being.  Science is a belied in a supreme generalization

Charles Fort

But if to every action there is a reaction that is equal and opposite, there is to every advantage, or betterment an equal disadvantage or worsenment.

Charles Fort

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

Charles Lamb

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Charlie Finley

"One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the sound."

Chinese Proverb

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

"The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap....Words exist because of meanings: once you've gotten the meanings, you can forget the words."

Chuang-Tzu

"...The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.”

Chuang-Tzu

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Coach Vince Lombardi

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

(551-479 BC)

Never apologize for your actions because if you never meant to do them in the first place, you wouldn't have done them.

D. Liu

"Life sucks no matter what, so don't be fooled by location changes"

Daria

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles 

David Ben-Gurion

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." 

David Grayson

"This is what learning is.  You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

Doris Lessing

"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."

Doris Lessing

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever encountered were temporary setbacks"

Dottie Walters

"Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Dylan Thomas

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.  

E. E. Commings

Mere orthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned.  The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness in out society.

Earl Warren

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I write to understand as much as to be understood."

Elie Wiesel

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading.  It vexes me to choose another guide."

Emily Bronte

"Don't fall before you're pushed."

English Proverb

"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."

Epictetus

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

Epicurus

(341-270 B.C.)

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Erica Jong

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."

Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

Erich Fromm

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Erich Segal

"There would seem to be almost no limit to what people can and will misunderstand when they are not doing their utmost to get at a writer's meaning."

Ezra Pound

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu.  The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Fanny Fern

Those who begin coercive   elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.  Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Felix Frankfurter

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"

Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Essays

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building blcok of the universe.  I dispute that.  i say there is more stupidity then hydrogen, and that is the basic building block on the universe.

Frank Zappa

"The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietziche

I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

G. B. Shaw

"In truth, the innate human need that underlies all writing, the need to give shape to your experience, is a gift we all possess from earliest childhood."

Gabriele Lusser Rico

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.   

General George Patton

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

"My work is done.  Why wait?"

George Eastman - suicide note

"Rast ich, so rost ich." (When I rest, I rust.)

German Proverb

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest- ask him.  If he says, "Yes," you know he's a crook."

Groucho Marx

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A coincidence is a small miracle where God chose to remain anonymous...

Heidi Quade

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."

Helen Hayes

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. 

Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

Henry David Thoreau

If the law is of such a nature that is requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, is say, break it.

Henry David Thoreau

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."

Herbert Bayard Swope

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to  become involved with experimenting with his own life." 

Herbert Otto

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."

Hippocrates

"Everyone has patience," said Paderewski. "I learned to use mine."

Ignacy Paderewski

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is

Iris Murdoch

"In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand.  Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself."

J. Krishnamurti

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me.  All i ask is that you respect me as a human being. 

Jackie Robinson

There cannot be a Philosophy, there cannot even be a decent science, without humanity.

Jacob Bronowski

"Rather than try to gauge your note-taking skill by quantity, think in this way:  am I simply doing clerk's work or am I assimilating new knowledge and putting down my own thoughts?  To put down your own thoughts you must put down your own words...If the note taken shows signs of having passed through a mind, it is a good test of its relevance and adequacy."

Jacques Barzun & Henry Graff

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

James Baldwin

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and now we cannot live within."

James Baldwin

"God gave us memories so that we may have roses in December."

James M. Barrie

"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"

James Thurber

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you've got.

Janis Joplin

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." 

Javan

Life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel. 

Jean Racine

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

Jewish Prayer

If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What we say is important . . . for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jim Beggs

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. `

Joe Louis

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. 

Joe Paterno

I wouldn't worry about it. These things have a way of working themselves out.

Joe, "Meet Joe Black"

I’ve been thinking about devils.  I mean if there are devils in the world, if there are people in the worlds who represent evil, is it our duty to exterminate them?

John Cleever

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names. 

John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."

John Glenn

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans

John Lennon

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.  You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself.  You've got to keep watering it.  You've got to really look after it and nurture it. 

John Lennon

"Reading furnishes our mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

John Locke

"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."

John Luther

In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit

José Martí

There is no conceivable human action which custom ahs not at one time justified and at another condemned 

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Dense, unenlightened people are notoriously confident that they have the monopoly on truth."

Joshua Loth Liebman

"The best proof of love is trust."

Joyce Brothers

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of the soulless conditions.  It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.  It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

Katherine Mansfield

Beware of anyone who demands your allegiance.  He obviously fears, probably with good reason, that he can’t earn it.

Kelvin Throop

"Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know."

Lao Tzu

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)

"Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." 

Leo Buscaglia

While I thought I was learning how to live, i was learning how to die.

Leonardo da vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should've been more specific."

Lily Tomlin

"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is"

Lord Chesterfield

"Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood."

Louise Beal

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

If the Pope wants to see me, he can buy a ticket like everyone else.

Madonna: declining to talk to the Pope

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

Malcom Forbes

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

"In most lives, insight has been accidental.  We wait for it as a primitive man awaited lightning for a fire.  But making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool; the essence of human intelligence is to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see pattern, relationships, context."

Marilyn Ferguson

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

Mark Russell

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 

Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Mark Twain

"Memory is the mother of imagination, reason and skill...This is the companion, this is the tutor, the poet, the library with which you travel."

Mark Van Doren

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong.  Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."

Martha Beck

"The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow men is that I do not say what I mean, and that I do not do what I say."

Martin Buber

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.

Interviewer: "You've been accused of vulgarity."  Mel Brooks: "Bullshit!"

Mel Brooks

Those people who tell you not to take chances, they are missing out on what life's about.  You only live once do take hold on chance; don't end-up like others, same song, same dance.

Metallica

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

Michael Konda

I do not wish for women to have power over men, rather have power over themselves.

Molly Wollstonecraft

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool, but be wise.

Montesquieu

"The meaning of life is nothing very special; try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."

Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

Nan Fairbrother

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

Nancy Parker Brummett

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

Neil Armstrong

A winner is someone who gets up even when they can't.

No Fear sloganz

"Death is not the greatest loss in life.  The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Norman Cousins

If you want to do something symbolic, wash the flag, don't burn it

Norman Thomas

The greatest thing in this worls is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience"

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

Oscar Wilde

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance." 

Oscar Wilde

The heart has reasons which reason does not know. 

Pascal

"You have two ears and one mouth.  Remember to use them in more or less that proportion."

Paula Bern

"Candor is a compliment; it implies equality.  It's how true friends talk."

Peggy Noonan

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Peter Ustinov

"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow."

Philip Gulley

"Friendship is a very Comforting sort of Thing."

Pooh

We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us

Pope John Paul II

Life is a succession of lessons which we must live to be understood

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who can make hard things easier is the educator

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the day is long, and the night, the night is yours alone.  And you think you've had enough of this live, well hang on.

REM

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Richard Bach

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Robert Burton (1577-1640) - English clergy

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Robert E. Lee

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned in life.  It goes on.

Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen.  Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself

Robert Heinlein

"There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."

Robert Lynd, Solomon in All His Glory

There is a difference between doing nothing and being bored.  Being bored is a judgment you make on yourself.  Doing nothing is a state of being

Robert Paul Smith

"I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism."

Roberto Rossellini

i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.  i feel my fate in what i cannot fear.  i learn by going where i have to go.

Roethke

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

"To be somebody you must last."

Ruth Gordon

"The art of true memory is the art of attention."

Samuel Johnson

As peace is the end of war, so is to be idle the ultimate purpose for the busy.

Samuel Johnson

"You can never fall off the floor."

Sarah Carino

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." 

Satchel Paige

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. 

Seneca

The wise will always reflect on the quality, not the quantity of life

Seneca

Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible.

Shakespeare

"The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."

Shakespeare

"The human ability to learn and remember is virtually limitless."

Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder

"Learning is not a task or a problem--it is a way to be in the world.  Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him."

Sidney Jourard

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."

Sidney Poitier

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what that plan is for.

Sir Fred Hoyle

Space isn’t remote at all.  It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Sir Fred Hoyle

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all out adversities

Sophocles

"Each individual is his own center, and the world centers in him."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Integrity is telling myself the truth.  And honesty is telling it to other people."

Spencer Johnson

"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger."

Stella Benson:

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." 

Stephen Hawking

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

Stephen Stills

"Shhh.  Listen carefully.  The voice of God can be felt.  Just listen to the noisy silences of the world . . . God speaks to us; through the music our ears perceive, through the images we see, and through the things we feel."

Suchit Patel

"If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too."

Sue Grafton

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest places if you look at it right

the Grateful Dead

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 

Thomas Fuller

"Argument seldom convinces anyone contrary to his inclinations"

Thomas Fuller

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

Thomas Sowell

"Creativity was in each one of us as a small child.  In children, it is universal.  Among adults it is almost nonexistent.  The great question is:  What has happened to this enormous and universal human capacity?  That is the question of the age."

Tillie Olsen

There is no such thing as a weird human being; its just some people require more understanding.

Tim Robbins

And the days went by like paper in the wind.  Everything changed, then changed again.

Tom Petty

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

Unknown

May you have just enough clouds in your life to be left with a beautiful sunset.

Unknown

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little.

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Unknown

The next time you begin to think you are all powerful, try ordering someone else's dog around

Unknown

After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.  So you plant your own garden & decorate your own soul  instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Unknown

"The only easy day was yesterday"

Unknown

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

Unknown

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." -

Unknown

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."

Unknown

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

Unknown

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." 

Unknown

Your strength is measured in how you confront your weaknesses. 

Unknown

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget they are someone today. 

Unknown

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Unknown

Handicaps are only a state of mind.

Unknown

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Unknown

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. as long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits. as long as we have friendship, today is beautiful.

Unknown

"No one ever hurt their eyes by looking at the sunny side of life."

Unknown

"If you're going to walk on thin ice, might as well dance."

Unknown

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." 

Victor Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Victor Hugo

"I wish they would only take me as I am."

Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Voltaire

"Love truth, but pardon error."

Voltaire

Chance is a word without sense, nothing can exist without a cause

Voltaire

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

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

Walt Disney

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Walter Bagehout

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game

Wendell Phillips

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

Willa Cather

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

William A. Ward

"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations."

William Feather, The Treasure of Franchard

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

"Destiny is not a 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

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."

William Shakespeare

"You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing; the real question is why did the other people stop?"

William Stafford

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things." 

Woody Allen

"Peace has no borders."

Yitzhak Rabin

Once you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny

Yoda

Do, or do not.  There is no try.  

Yoda

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can love.

Zelda Fitzgerald

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road