"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
--Muhammad Ali

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
--Anon

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
--Arthur Ashe

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
--Isaac Asimov

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
--Richard Bach

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."
--Richard Bach

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
--A. C. Benson

"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than 'tis to gain honor by taking them."
--David Borenstein

"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."
--Louise Brown

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
--Buddha

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
--Buddha

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
--Buddha

"Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true."
--Buddha

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
--George Washington Carver

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"
--John Cleese

"There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are."
--Frederick L Collins

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
--Frank Crane

"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community."
--Anthony J. D’Angelo

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
--Dalai Lama

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
--Rene Descartes

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."
--Lord Thomas Dewar

"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
--Phillip K. ****

"Never judge a book by its movie."
--J.W. Eagan

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
--Albert Einstein

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."
--Victor Frankl

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
--Ben Franklin

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it."
--Stanley Garn

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
--Andre Gide

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
--Goethe

"We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained."
--Maurice Hulst

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
--Aldous Huxley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
--Aldous Huxley

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
--Eugene Ionesco

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
--William James

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
--Carl Jung

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
--Carl Jung

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
--Carl Jung

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
--Helen Keller

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
--John F Kennedy

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
--Kierkegaard

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Know the masculine, keep to the feminine."
--Lao-Tzu

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
--Lao-Tzu

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
--John Lennon

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
--John Lennon

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
--John Lennon

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
--Claude Levi-Strauss

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight."
--Bob Marley

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
--Nelson Mendela

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
--A. A. Milne

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso

"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."
--Plato

"Everything has been figured out except how to live."
--Jean-Paul Sartre

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
--Charles Schultz

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."
--Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
--Albert Schweitzer

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
--Albert Schweitzer

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
--Albert Schweitzer

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
--Anne Sexton

"This above all; to thine own self be true."
--William Shakespeare

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
--Gail Sheehy

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
--Socrates

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
--Swedish Proverb

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
--Dan Stanford

"The journey is the reward."
--Taoist Saying

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
--Henry David Thoreau

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
--James Thurber

"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."
--Pierre Trudeau

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain

"If it is to be, it is up to me."
--Unknown

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
--Voltaire

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
--Emiliano Zapata

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
--Ziggy