The Dhammapada

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”
- The Dhammapada

Tom Robbins

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins

T. S. Eliot

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Ge Hong

Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.
- Ge Hong

Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel de Montaigne

Louisa May Alcott

Father asked us, What was God's noblest work? Anna said, Men, but I said Babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
- Louisa May Alcott

Plato

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato

Tao Te Ching

Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
- Tao Te Ching

Dave Barry

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
- Dave Barry

Thomas Edison

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. - Thomas Edison

A. P. Gouthey

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
- A. P. Gouthey

Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
- Lao Tzu

J. D. Salinger

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
- J. D. Salinger

Ambrose Bierce

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- Ambrose Bierce

Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.
- Aesop

Ronald Reagan

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
- Ronald Reagan

Stanislaw J. Lec

"I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward."
- Stanislaw J. Lec

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.
- Katharine Hepburn

Terry Pratchett

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Helen Keller

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller

Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Stephen Leacock

Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Lester R. Bittel

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
- Lester R. Bittel The Nine Master Keys of Management

Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

H. L. Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- H. L. Mencken

Antonin Scalia

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean, is worthless.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Confucius

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- Confucius

Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
- Mark Twain