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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

- George Matthew Adams

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

- George Burns

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

- Augustine

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

- Henry Bromel,

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

- Shana Alexander

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

- Chinese proverb

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

- Alexander Graham Bell

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

- George Bernard Shaw

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.


- Joseph Addison

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran