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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind"

- Albert Einstein

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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Edward de Bono

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I think you missed my post, Clee. :)

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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

-Buddha

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“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.


-Vincent Van Gogh

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“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.”

- Tori Amos

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

-Ernest Hemingway

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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

- Erich Segal

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It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.


-Judah Philip Benjamin

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“If I traveled to the end of the rainbow - As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me - The pot's at the other end”

- Bert Whitney

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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 A. Baldwin

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“Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men”

- Voltaire

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It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.


-Mae West

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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”

- Francis Bacon

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

-Margaret Anderson

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“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.


--George Carlin





So so so so sorry :biggrin:

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"It is so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

Malcolm Forbes

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The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.


-John Peers

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

- Bertrand Russell

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.


Louisa May Alcott

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Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

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"Words are the small change of thought."

Jules Renard

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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Tim Berners Lee

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"Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply."

Martha Reeves

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Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

-Woody Allen

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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Henry David Thoreau

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“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”

- Alfred Adler

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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

-Dave Attell

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“Husband and wife come to look alike at last”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.


-Antonio Porchia

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“Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.”

- Tori Amos

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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

-Jeffrey Archer

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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

James Thurber

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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
Lion Feuchtwanger

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

-Leo Tolstoy

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"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."

Julius Erving

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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

-Dabney Coleman

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"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people."

Alan Autry