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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Georges Eliot
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As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
Gregory Macguire
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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
Bill Watterson
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Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
J. R .R. Tolkien
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Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank
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I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
Hugh Elliott
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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard.
Peter Drucker
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Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
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The sands are number'd that make up my life.
William Shakespeare
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You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes.
Hunter S. Thompson
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis
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Double, double toil and trouble;
William Shakespeare
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I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Aesop
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He who isn't busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
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I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfizer
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brown
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward Beecher
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VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
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HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
Ambrose Bierce
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Cicero
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
Unknown
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
Steven Wright
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx
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