"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right . . ." Ani DiFranco

"If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best." Neale Donald Walsch

"The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for." Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)

"It's a small world, but we all run in big circles." Sasha Azevedo

"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception." James Thurber

"The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be." Loesje

"Look for the differences in the similarities and the similarities in the differences." Antonio Cirino

"Paradox is an idea making fun of itself." Earon Davis

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." Mark Twain

"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." unknown

"Okay, let's just say that everybody's at fault but nobody's to blame and get on with it." Robert Brault

"All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy." Shantideva

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance." Author Unknown

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers

"The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale." Aesop

"Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone." Arab Proverb

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well." Jim Rohn

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays

"In bad times, we learn good habits." James Yerage

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe." Peter De Vries, editor, novelist

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." John Allen Paulos

"Talking about food will not get rid of hunger." Hui-Neng

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." Malcolm S. Forbes

"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me." Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

"Walk towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you." unknown

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

"Those that are supple are disciples of life. Those that are brittle are disciples of death." LaoTzu

"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents." Peter Mere Latham, physician and educator (1789-1875)

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is (except) merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." Herman Melville

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." Ron Nesen

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." Doug Horton

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." Montaigne

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." Ellen Goodman

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." Nora Ephron

"Words and feathers are easily scattered, but not easily gathered up." Anonymous

"When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand." Alex Haley

"Don't push the river. Let the river come to you." Zen saying

" Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb

"You can't win unless you know how to lose." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"He who will not economize will have to agonize." Confucius

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." Louis D. Brandeis

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth." Arthur Schopenhauer

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates

"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." Chuang-tzu

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (1952-2001)

"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about." Norman Augustine

"Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?" James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad." John Barrymore

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash." Louis Aragon

"The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many." Joseph Wood Krutch

"Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence

"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength." Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

"No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom." Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

"The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full of paradox and contradiction. It's only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast." Madeliene L'Engle

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." Friedrich Nietzsche

"A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life." Abraham Hicks

"The maxim 'nothing but perfection' may be spelled 'paralysis'." Winston Churchill

"How old you are is inversely proportional to your spontaneity quotient." Veronique Vienne

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

"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)

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

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

"For the longest way round is the shortest way home." C.S. Lewis

"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." Andy Warhol

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." Coco Chanel)

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence." William Blake

"People of small caliber like to sit on high horses." Magdalena Samozwaniec, writer (1894-1972)

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." Michelangelo

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." Winston Churchill

"Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting." Richard Pascale, Surfing the Edge of Chaos

"May you never forget what is worth remembering and never remember what is best forgotten."  Anonymous

"The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions -- none more so than the most capable." Theodore Dreiser, author (1871-1945)

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing." Henry David Thoreau

"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien

"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." Anonymous

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Swedish proverb

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past." Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)

"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion." Washington Irving

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." Unknown

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." George Santayana

"The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter." James H. McGavran

"To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding."Ken Wilber, Eye of Spirit

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

"Every explicit duality is an implicit unity." Alan Watts

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."Ralph W. Sockman

“To fly, we have to have resistance." Maya Lin

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

“Anything is dramatized by its opposite. Even the best marriage is filled with conflict. Conflict’s function is to dramatize dominance, but it musn’t challenge it.” Ed Whitney

“A painting is always about two things: the dancing pairs—sea and sky, light and dark, warm and cool. Only the painting itself is a single thing.” Rex Brandt