Michael Josephson

"It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage."
- Michael Josephson

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer - The Philosophy of Civilization

Edward Abbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Edward Abbey

Tao Te Ching

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
- Tao Te Ching

Sophocles

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love".
- Sophocles

Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Van Morrison

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
- Van Morrison

Marquise De SeVigne

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
- Marquise De SeVigne

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

James A. Froude

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
- James A. Froude

George Orwell

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- George Orwell

Confucius

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
- Confucius

Buddha

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
- Buddha

Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato

Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
- Woody Allen

Samuel Johnson

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
- Samuel Johnson

Lillian Carter

"Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."
- Lillian Carter

Arnold Lobel

"Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
- Arnold Lobel

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
- Joyce Cary

Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca

Oscar Wilde

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
- Oscar Wilde

H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- H. L. Mencken

Herschel Walker

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
- Herschel Walker

David Viscott

"To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides".
- David Viscott

Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
- Albert Camus

Albert Einstein

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity"
- Albert Einstein

Robert Orben

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
- Robert Orben

Will Rogers

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
- Will Rogers

Ambrose Bierce

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
- Ambrose Bierce

George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain