quotes

"It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music." Eric Hoffer

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes." Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." William Phelps

"Art is the expression of the most profound thoughts in the simplest way." Albert Einstein

"Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." Helen Keller

"There are many things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But--and this is the point--who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go on your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get." Annie Dillard, from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

"Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts,
they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart." Fiona Apple

"Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be."
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"Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet." Paul Klee

"In this country, every man is the architect of his own ambitions." Horton Bain

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." Eskimo proverb

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Colin Powell

"Practice is the best of all instructors." Publilius Syrus

"Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the cross hairs of a gun sight. And after I've finished 'shooting,'my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals." Jimmy Stewart

"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." Stephen Swid, executive (b. 1941)

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." Moshe Dayan, military leader and politician (1915-1981)

"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)

"He who would be a leader must be a bridge." Welsh proverb

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things." John Burroughs

"A key--perhaps the key--to leadership is the effective communication of a story." Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it." Boethius