When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. (Mark Twain)
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. (Albert Einstein)
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. (William Blake)
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this. (Henry David Thoreau)
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. (Brian Tracy)
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. (Publilius Syrus)
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. (Dutch Proverb)
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones. (William Shakespeare)
All sunshine makes the desert. (Arab Proverb)
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy. (Amy Vanderbilt)
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. (Helen Rowland)
Energy is eternal delight. (William Blake)
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. (Norman Cousins)
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. (Ernest Hemingway)
He who learns but does not think, is lost He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. (Confucius)
It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer. (Charles Grodin)
Reuben Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it. (Ocean's Eleven)
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. (Lawrence Downs)
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. (Thich Nhat Hanh)