Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. (Henry David Thoreau)
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Grover Thurber)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. (Tennessee Williams)
Study men, not historians. (Harry S Truman)
It is easier to stay out than get out. (Mark Twain)
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. (W. H. Auden)
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Robert Darwin)
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. (Kahlil Gibran)
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. (Shimon Peres)
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. (Plato)
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. (Garrison Keillor)
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life. (Unknown)
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (George Smith Patton, Jr.)
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. (Max Lerner)
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. (Stephen Baker)
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. (Buddha)
Gossip needs no carriage. (Assyrian Proverb)