Novalis

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
- Novalis

Richard M. DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
- Richard M. DeVos

Doug Larson

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
- Doug Larson

Bertrand Russell

"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
- Bertrand Russell

Katharine Whitehorn

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
- Katharine Whitehorn

Johnny Carson

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
- Johnny Carson

Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Buddha

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
- Buddha

Thomas Edison

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison

Hugh White

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White

Edward Teller

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
- Edward Teller

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yogi Berra

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name. (Upon receiving a cheque from Jack Buck made out to "Bearer".)
- Yogi Berra

Emory Ward

Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious.
- Emory Ward

Alfred Hitchcock

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock

James M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Albert Camus

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
- Albert Camus

John Gaule

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works."
- John Gaule

George Wallace

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?"
- George Wallace

Lord Byron

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
- Lord Byron

Paul Valery

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
- Paul Valery

Clarence Darrow

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- Joseph Addison

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
- Christina Rossetti

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth

Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

Bill Bryson

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
- Bill Bryson

Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
- Mark Twain