Eva Le Gallienne

Innovators are inevitably controversial.
- Eva Le Gallienne

C. S. Lewis

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
- C. S. Lewis

Harold Taylor

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor

Tellis Frank

"The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee."
- Tellis Frank

Anonymous

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
- Anonymous

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Feuerbach

Religion has its genesis in the essential difference between man and the animal -- the animals have no religion.
- Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity

Dan Rather

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
- Dan Rather

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)

Aldous Huxley

“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”
- Aldous Huxley

John Andrew Holmes

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
- Dalai Lama

Confucius

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
- Confucius

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

Proverb

Some evils are cured by contempt.
- Proverb

Herman Melville

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Israel Zangwill

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...
- Israel Zangwill

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Katherine Mansfield

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield

Tao Te Ching

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick, then you can move toward health.
- Tao Te Ching

Oscar Wilde

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Buddha

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- Buddha

C. S. Lewis

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
- C. S. Lewis

Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain