Woodrow T. Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
- Woodrow T. Wilson

Michael Crichton

“Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
- Michael Crichton

Larry Hardiman

"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
- Larry Hardiman

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf

Frantz Fanon

"Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent."
- Frantz Fanon

James M. Barrie

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
- James M. Barrie

Joseph Campbell

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

Phillips Brooks

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks

Maureen Killoran

Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.
- Maureen Killoran

Alfred Korzybski

"There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
- Alfred Korzybski

Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Lee Iacocca

If you want to make good use of your time, youve got to know what’s most important and then give it all youve got.
- Lee Iacocca

Francis Bacon

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon

Rita Rudner

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
- Rita Rudner

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

James Luther Adams

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.
- James Luther Adams

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stephen Covey

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey

James Branch Cabell

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

Aristotle

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
- Aristotle

Myrtie Barker

"The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?"
- Myrtie Barker

George Leonard Andrews

What single ability do we all have? The ability to change.
- George Leonard Andrews

Nora Joyce

“Why don't you write books people can read?”
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882 - 1941)

Nathaniel Branden

"To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish, to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women: rather it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression--the actualization of personal values."
- Nathaniel Branden

Edward Cullen

I hear voices in my head and they don't like you.
- Edward Cullen

Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
- Voltaire

Albert Einstein

Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!
- Albert Einstein

Will Rogers

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

Cher

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you’re obsolete.
- Cher

Mark Twain

Happiness ain't a thing in itself--it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
- Mark Twain