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

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a
quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human 
life. -Goethe

When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China. -?

You can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes you'll find
what you need. -Rolling Stones

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and 
leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. -Seneca

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. -?

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -?

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were 
it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. -George Santayana

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. -William Butlet 
Yeats

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, 
"Compared to what?" -Sydney J. Harris

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small 
matters, as they are. -Gamaliel Bradford

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you 
didn't know you possessed. -Napoleon Hill

When things go wrong - don't go wrong with them. -?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something 
else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon

Security is when everything is settled.  When nothing can happen to you.  
Security is the denial of life. -Germaine Greer

Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as 
himself, and hates them for it. -George Bernard Shaw

2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise 
than saved by criticism.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the 
sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. -Bertrand Russell

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. 
-Bernadette Devlin

Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or a humble enemy. -English 
Proverb

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life 
in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people 
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can 
become great. -Mark Twain

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Law...begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not 
like. -Karl Llewellyn

Q: What do you call a clairvoyant midget who just broke out of prison? A: 
A small medium at large.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and 
the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom 
to know one from the other. -Oliver J. Hart

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy 
denying they made them.

No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands 
others. -Goethe

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a
child.  -Ron Wild

The Unspeakable Law.  As soon as you mention something ... if it is good 
it goes away, ... if it is bad it happens.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from 
your vocabulary: impossible. -H. Robert Schuller

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last 
-Winston Churchill

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way 
down. -W. Migner

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in 
the low time. -Robert H. Schuller

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. 
-Albert Camus

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be 
happier than others. -Oscar Wilde

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. 
-George Christopher Lichtenberg 

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in 
the other direction. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Look at everthing 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

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. -Griffin's Thought

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in 
another time. -Hebrew proverb

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules 
Renard

The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. -Kahlil Gibran

Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. 
Remember that it's all small stuff. -Anthony Robbins

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -American Indian Proverb

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. -Kurt Lewin

If you want good service, then serve yourself. -Spanish Proverb

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your 
enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

There is an easy answer to your problem that is neat, plausible, and 
wrong.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was 
that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those 
people. -US Vice President J. Danforth Quayle
 
There are no facts, only interpretations. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- Hanlon's Razor

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

Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true 
strength. -Ralph Sockman

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward 
together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably a duck. -?

A new idea is delicate.  It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be 
stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right 
person's brow. -Charles Brower

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. -Plato

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people 
laugh at their own jokes. -Bob Edwards

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. -L. P. Hartley, British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy? -H. Jackson 
Browne [P.S. I Love You]

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will 
surprise you with their ingenuity. -General George S. Patton, Jr.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -Thomas 
A. Edison

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. -Japanese proverb

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under 
his feet. -James Oppenheim

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do 
what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. -Cyrus Curtis

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -Kin Hubbard

Not that I want to be a god or a hero.  Just to change into a tree, grow 
for ages, not hurt anyone. -Czeslaw Milosz

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the 
only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

A pessimist is one who is seasick on the entire voyage of life.

Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen at once.

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much. -Ken 
Wisdom

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we 
fail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has a why can endure any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find 
the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk 
to Freedom]

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away 
from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.  One helps you make a living; the 
other helps you make a life. -Sandra Carey

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me 
new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and 
Truth. -Albert Einstein