quotes

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart." Celia Thaxter

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

"All art is the expression of one and the same thing--the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world." Ansel Adam

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading." Eleanor Roosevelt

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Thomas A. Edison

"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)

"You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction."  Alvin Toffler

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama

"No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!" Thomas Hood, "No!"

"Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes.  Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits." Samuel Butler

"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." Golda Meir

If the things we believe in are different than the things we do, there can be no true happiness."  Dana Telford

"Live like a poor man with lots of money." Pablo Picasso

"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, 
while cares will drop away from you, like the leaves of Autumn." John Muir

"Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face." Luis Borges

"Music is the voice of the universe, it is the voice of humanity and is part of our existence. Good music is the harmonization of all the vibrations of which matter consists, and it restores us to ourselves and to our universe. It is the bond that we have between our own frequencies and those frequencies which vibrate millions of light years away. I have always felt that music is basically therapeutic." Yehudi Menuhin

"If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves."  Thomas Sowell (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)