Carl Sagan

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
- Carl Sagan

Dame Edna Everage

To an overweight woman: I love that fabric, you were lucky to find so much of it.
- Dame Edna Everage

Walt Whitman

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self contained,I stand and look at them long and long.
- Walt Whitman

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Dr. Smiley Blanton

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capabilities to their greatest extent."
- Dr. Smiley Blanton

Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Morality is contraband in war.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
- George S. Patton

John F. Kennedy

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."
- John F. Kennedy

Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
- Henry Ford

Saki

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."
- Saki

Bethania McKenstry

"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."
- Bethania McKenstry

Carolyn Kizer

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
- Carolyn Kizer

Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Richard Bach

Robert Heinlein

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
- Robert Heinlein

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sir Terence Conran

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
- Sir Terence Conran

Bo Bennett

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett

Allan K. Chalmers

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Allan K. Chalmers (1759 - 1834)

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel

James M. Barrie

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he hoped to make it."
- James M. Barrie

Benedict Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts. Everyone has as much right as he has might.
- Benedict Spinoza

Jean Kerr

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
- Jean Kerr

Seneca

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
- Seneca

Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil.
- Samuel Butler

Charles Lamb

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
- Charles Lamb

Elvis Costello

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
- Elvis Costello

George Bernard Shaw

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

Mark Twain

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.
- Mark Twain