Bruce Cockburn

"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."
- Bruce Cockburn

Fitzhugh Mullan

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.”
- Fitzhugh Mullan

Mary-Clair King

I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. The second is sheer perseverance.
- Mary-Clair King

Carl Sagan

Our solar system consists of one star and some debris.
- Carl Sagan

Walter T. Tatara

"Surely the shortest commencement address in history; and for me one of the most memorable; was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire’s Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself; Socrates. Control yourself; Cicero. Give yourself; Christ.'"
- Walter T. Tatara

Henry David Thoreau

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Thomas J. Watson

It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it.
- Thomas J. Watson

W. C. Fields

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
- W. C. Fields

William Ralph Inge

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge

Roger Miller

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller

Samuel Johnson

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- Samuel Johnson

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
- Dave Barry

Clare Booth Luce

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ”
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)

Alexis de Tocqueville

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

Leonardo da Vinci

“Two weaknesses leaning together create a strength. Therefore the half of the world leaning against the other half becomes firm.”
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate,
it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy,
it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Confucius

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to be worthy of being known.
- Confucius

John Ruskin

"The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
- John Ruskin

Gloria Steinem

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
- Gloria Steinem

Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
- Irving Babbitt

Tao Te Ching

Simplicity, Patience, Compassion: These three are your greatest treasures.
- Tao Te Ching

C. S. Lewis

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
- C. S. Lewis

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Sean Connery

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
- Sean Connery

Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you've even survived, But what torments of grief you've endured, From evils which never arrived.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Shakespeare

“I have not slept one wink”
- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1564-1616)

Mahatma Gandhi

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Mark Twain

They all did their best - to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history-- but only the Christian civilization has scored a triumph to be proud of. Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian- not to acquire his religion, but his guns.
- Mark Twain