Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood. (Peter Medawar)
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. (Al Jaffee)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. (Joseph Heller)
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever. (1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible)
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. (Cyril Connolly)
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action. (Unknown)
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Oscar Wilde)
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. (William Bolitho)
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another. (Rig Veda)
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. (Robert Hutchins)
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. (Ben Stein)
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. (Fletcher Knebel)
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. (Norman Vincent Peale)
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it (L. M. Montgomery)
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. (Anthony Robbins)
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. (Tommy Smothers)
Living well is the best revenge. (George Herbert)
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. (Mary Ellen Kelly)