" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. "

Ernest Benn

" Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. "

Lillian Hellman US dramatist (1905 – 1984)

" To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. "

Robert Copeland

" I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer (1900 – 1944)

" We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities. "

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003 43rd President of US (1946 – )

" We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring. "

Rev. Jesse Jackson

" If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way. "

Chuang Tzu

" Advice is least heeded when most needed. "

American Proverb

" Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all. "

Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto

" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. "

Mahtma Gandhi

" The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. "

Lin Yutang

" We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. "

Donald Curtis

" I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. "

Harry S Truman 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972)

" What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. "

Francois De La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

" Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. "

Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)

" We are what we repeatedly do. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. "

Rita Mae Brown US author and social activist

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

John Russell

" Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. "

W. H. Auden US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 – 1973)

" Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt. "

Neil Finn, track #12 on his album “Try Whistling This”

" In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

Orson Welles US actor & director (1915 – 1985)

" Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. "

Napoleon Hill

" How much I love every thing that is decided and open! "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. "

Juvenal Roman poet & satirist (55 AD – 127 AD)

" The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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