I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do because, I notice, it always coincides with their own desires 

- Susan B. Anthony

There is no trap so deadly, as the trap you set for yourself 

- Raymond Chandler

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. 

- Charles Bukowski

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

-Fred Rogers

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. 

-Ray Bradbury

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

-Thomas Jefferson

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

-Robert Heinlein

It isn't the mountains ahead that will wear you down, it's the pebble in your shoe.

-Muhammed Ali

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

-Patrick Meagher

12% of employees eat because they are hungry.  88% of employees eat because it is one o'clock

-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

-Seneca

It is better to be loved, but safer to be feared... For love is held by the tie of obligation, which, because men are sadly wicked, is broken to serve their self-interest; but fear is held by a dread of punishment which never abandons you.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

The purpose of life, is to live a life of purpose

-Anonymous

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert 

- Mike Tyson

People are stupid, they will believe something because they want it to be true; or because they're afraid it might be true

- Terry Goodkind

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

-Terry Pratchett

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

- Emiliano Zapata

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene V. Debs

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.

-Friedrich Neitzsche

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

- Albert Camus

It's a mistake to theorize in advance of the facts. Insensibly, one begins twisting facts to suit theories, rather than theories to suit facts.

-Sherlock Holmes

Man... sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

- Dalai Lama

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. 

-Cardinal Richelieu

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money

-Native American Proverb

Society does not want individuals who are alert, keen, revolutionary, because such individuals will not fit into the established social pattern and they may break it up. That is why society seeks to hold your mind in its pattern, and why your so-called education encourages you to imitate, to follow, to conform.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

 -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

-Kahlil Gibran

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H.G. Wells

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

-Voltaire

How loudly you talk and the validity of your argument usually exist in inverse proportion

-Bertrand Russell

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

-Calvin (Bill Watterson)

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

-Bruce Lee

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

-Max Planck

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. 

-Robert J. Oppenheimer

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

- James Branch Cabell

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't even begun to pull the knife out. They won't even admit the knife is there.

- Malcolm X

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

 -Rudyard Kipling

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

-John F. Kennedy

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

-Teddy Roosevelt

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?  

-Blaise Pascal

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

- Hunter S Thompson

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

-Gandalf The Grey (J.R.R. Tolkein)

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.  

-Chuck Palahniuk

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Gandhi

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. 

-Douglas Adams

The Poor shall never cease out of the land 

- Deuteronomy 15:11

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act 

- George Orwell

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion

-Adam Smith

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph

-Haile Selassie

You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

-C.S. Lewis

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or whatnot if we develop an equal fanaticism.  It appears to me that one defeats the fantaic precisely by not by being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence. In the same way a man can kill a tiger because he is not like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. 

- George Orwell

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous

-Confucius

Some people like my advice so much they frame it upon the wall instead of using it

-Gordon R. Dickson

It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled

-Mark Twain

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness

-Joseph Conrad

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression nor encourage their unique abilities

- Benjamin Greene

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

-Maya Angelou

It's one of life's bitterest truths is that bedtime arrives so often just as things are getting interesting

-Lemony Snicket

Those who are heartless once cared too much

-Anonymous

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusion destroyed

-Friedrich Neitzsche

When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said "At least the handle is one of us"

-Turkish Proverb

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

-Kurt Vonnegut

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge

-Tyron Lannister (Game of Thrones)

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold

-Khalil Gibran

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man

-Mark Twain

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.  It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary

-Anonymous

Everyone is tempted by the eloquence of speech
but I am a slave to the Master of Silence.

-Rumi

A life is not important except in it has impact on other lives

-Jackie Robinson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

-Judith Martin

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

-Saint Augustine

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

-Clare Booth Luce

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much

-Oscar Wilde

Wear the old coat and buy the new book

-Austin Phelps

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts

-John Dewey

In wine there is wisdom.  In beer there there is freedom.  In water there is bacteria

-Benjamin Franklin

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

-Anonymous

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you've "made it."

-Hugh MacLeod

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

-Steven Weinberg

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

-William Ralph Igne

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

-Jules Renard

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-Lillian Hellman

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

-Jules Renard

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice

-Meister Eckhart

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

-Harry S. Truman

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable

- Eric Hoffer

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

-Blaise Pascal

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

-William S. Burroughs

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

-Kurt Vonnegut

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another

-J. Frank Dobie

If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.

 — Ritu Ghatourey

Nobody who gave their best effort ever regretted it

-George Halas

Discontent is the first necessity of progress

-Thomas Edison

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

-Daniel Webster

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

-Kiersten White (The Chaos of Stars)

An election is coming.  Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry

-George Elliot

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits

-Albert Einstein

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday

-Anonymous

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

-Aristotle

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking

-Lyndon B. Johnson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject

-Winston Churchill

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him

- David Brinkley

For each person there is a sentence - a series of words - which has the power to destroy them

- Philip K. Dick

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless.  No one's life is nothing.  Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, has some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins

-Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (Speaker for the Dead)

There are always two people in any picture: The photographer and the viewer

-Ansel Adams

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain

- Vivian Greene

Fear not the path of truth, fear the lack of people walking on it

-Robert F. Kennedy

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated; or undergo such incessant changes that no man knows what the law is today, or can guess what it will be tomorrow

-James Madison

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except for yourself

-Rita Mae Brown

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which to keep.

- Scott Adams

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished

-Rumi

I think of a hero as somebody who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom

-Bob Dylan

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses

-Plato

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there's still going to be somebody that hates peaches

-Dita von Teese

Money will buy you a pretty dog, but it won't buy you the wag of its tail

-Josh Billings

Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it

-Vincent Van Gogh

You don't need religion to have morals.  If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion

-Anonymous

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas

-George Bernard Shaw

When the winds of change blow; some people build walls and others build windmills

-Chinese Proverb

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

-Oscar Wilde

I love sleep.  My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

-Ernest Hemingway

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring

-Carl Sagan

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you

-Eric Hoffer

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it himself

-Galileo Galilei

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it does to enslave a people that wants to remain free

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Kill a man, one is a murderer.  Kill a million, a conqueror.  Kill them all, a God

-Jean Rostrand

The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it

-George Orwell

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;  the most massive characters are seared with scars

-Khalil Gibran

A day can really slip by when you're avoiding what you're supposed to do

-Calvin (Bill Watterson)

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side of it?

-George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, the world would be a merrier place

-J.R.R Tolkein

There are things we don't want but have to accept.  Things we don't want to know but have to learn and people we can't live without, but have to let go

-Anonymous

Stupidity has a certain charm.  Ignorance does not

-Frank Zappa

Pray like it depends on God.  Work like it depends on you.

-Dave Ramsey

The moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons.  It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

-Col Chris Hadfield

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

-Glen Bateman (The Stand)

The two most important days of your life are the day that you are born and the day you find out why.

-Goku (Dragon Ball Z)

If we can hit that bulls-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate

-Zap Brannigan (Futurama)

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

- Atticus Finch (Harper Lee)

Some people will always need help, the doesn't mean they're not worth helping

-Meera Reed (George R.R. Martin)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Worry is interest paid in advance on a loan that never comes due

 - George Lang

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

-Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe I'm going home.

-Gattaca

They don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.

-Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting)

Sadness gives depth.  Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots.  Happiness gives branches.

Happiness is like a tree going into the sky and sadness is like roots going down into the womb of the earth.  Both are needed and the higher the tree goes, the deeper it goes simultaneously.

The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.  In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance

-Osho

We read to know we are not alone

-C.S. Lewis

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world you fear what he might say

-Tyrion Lannister (George R.R.Martin)

The best thing in life to hold onto is each other

-Audrey Hepburn

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but would like to be something to someone

-Javan

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.

-J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone)

There is nothing more rare or more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her imperfection.  To me, that is the essence of true beauty

-Steve Maraboli

I've seen so many young men over the years, who think they're running at other young men.  Really, they're running at me.

-Death (The Book Thief)

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

-Socrates

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from

-Cormac McCarthy

The governments of the people are better than those of princes...in a well-ordered republic it should never be necessary to resort to extra-constitutional measures

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck

- The Dalai Lama

I've lived by the dangerous -- and sometimes rather foolish -- maxim that I'm prepared to try anything once.

-Richard Branson

You have to learn how to duck, because they're gonna throw it at you.

-Arthur Miller

When you are in a position to not be a nice person, that's when you find out who you really are.

-Hugh Hefner

You're never as good as they say you are.  You're never as bad as they say you are

-George Clooney

At his best, man is the noblest of all the animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst

-Aristotle

Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you

-Anonymous

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

A freedom that only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense

-Barack Obama

The most effective way to destroy a people is to obliterate their understanding of their own history

-George Orwell

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child

-Pythagoras

Comparison is the thief of joy

-Theodore Roosevelt

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

-Edward Snowden

I don't give a fuck what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

-Mos Def

When injustice become law, resistance becomes duty

-Thomas Jefferson

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money

-Johnny Cash

Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear

-George Orwell

A house that has a library in it has a soul

-Plato

I like you guys who want to reduce the size of government - make it just small enough to fit inside the bedroom

-Josh Lyman (The West Wing)

My goal is no longer to get more done, but to have less to do

-Francine Jay

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too.  They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

-Stephen King

Physics is like sex; yes, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it

-Richard Feynman

The good thing about science is that it's true, whether you believe it or not

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Don't give up what you want most for what you want now.

-Richard G. Scott

With the first link, the chain is formed.  The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. 

-Judge Aaron Satie

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something

-Federico Fellini

If death causes you no pain when you are dead, it is foolish to let the fear of it cause you pain now

-Epicurus

Hold fast to your dreams...but temper your ideas with reality

-Vermont State Motto

There are no passengers on spaceship Earth.  We are all the crew

-Marshall McLuhan

And now that you don't have to be perfect you can be good

-John Steinbeck

Progress has never been a bargain.  You have to pay for it.  Sometimes I think there is a man who sits behind a counter and says, "Alright, you can have a telephone, but you lose the privacy and charm of distance.  Madam, you may vote, but at a price.  You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff of your petticoat.  Mister, you may conquer the air, but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline

-Henry Drummond (Inherit The Wind)

You read that certain kind of fiction where the guy will always get the girl and the good guys win and it reaffirms to you that life is fair.  We all want that at times.  There is a certain vicarious release to that...But that's not the fiction that I write, in most cases.  It's certainly not what Ice and Fire is.  It has joy, but it also has pain and fear. I think the best fiction captures the life in all its light and darkness

-George R.R. Martin

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog

-Mark Twain

Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.

-Anonymous

Always remember the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading.  People like a show.

-Terry Pratchett

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets

-Napoleon Bonaparte

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

- Voltaire

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person that has nothing to eat

-Mother Teresa

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

-Abraham Lincoln

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

-Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)

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

-Lao Tse

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future

- Paul Boese

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. 

- Fred Rogers

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them 

- Confucius

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future

- Paul Boese

The average man does not want to be free, he wants to be safe 

- HL Mencken

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it enough 

-Albert Einstein

No one saves us but ourselves.  No one can and no one may.  We ourselves must walk the path 

- Buddha

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. 

-George Bernard Shaw

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think 

- Horace Walpole

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them

- Arthur Schopenauer

They say there’s no future for us.  They’re right.  Which is fine with us 

- Rumi

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it 

-Pablo Picasso

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

-Oscar Wilde

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please 

- Mark Twain

He had delusions of adequacy 

- Walter Kerr

You have enemies?  Good, the means you stood up for something, sometime in your life 

- Winston Churchill

An ounce of peace is all I want for you.  Will you never call me again? 

- Blue October

So it goes. 

- Kurt Vonnegut

Never go on trips with anyone you don’t love

-Ernest Hemingway

You can boast about anything if it’s all you have.  Maybe the less you have the more you’re required to boast.

-Chuck Palahniuk (Rant)

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

-Georg Lichtenberg

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum

-Noam Chomsky

No snowflake in an avalanche ever felt responsible

-Voltaire

He had decided to live forever, or die in the attempt.

-Joseph Heller

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

-Shimon Peres

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

-Peter Ustinov

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument

- Desmond Tutu

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

-Robert Orben

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

-Frederich von Schiller

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking

-A.A. Milne

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

-Richard Chapman

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

-Phillip K. Dick

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it

-William Gibson

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented

-Edith Sitwell

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it

-Stephen Vizinczey

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

-Robert Frost

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

-Rudyard Kipling

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

- Thucydides

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

-Claude Bernard

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

-John Stuart Mill

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

-Chuck Palahniuk

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

-Salman Rushdie

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past

-George Orwell

The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

-Edward R. Murrow

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 (Farenheit 451)

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation

-Saki

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

-Abraham Lincoln

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

- Arnold Toynbee

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

-Frank Herbert

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

-Benjamin Franklin

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

- Khalil Gibran 

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony

-Seneca

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

-Edgar Watson Howe

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives

- Euripides

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

-Victor Hugo

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

- Michael Crichton

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives

- Robert M. Pirsig

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

-Bill Watterson

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

-Robert Benchley

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

-George Washington

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

-Oscar Wilde

People speak of my drinking, but never of my thirst

- The Menzingers

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

- Laurens Van der Post