" Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. "

Author Unknown

" A little rebellion now and then…is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. "

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them. "

Author Unknown

" A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited. "

Osho, The art of Dying

" Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after. "

Henry David Thoreau, ? US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. "

Jello Biafra

" You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart. "

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

" The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. "

Joseph Conrad English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 – 1924)

" Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

" Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. "

Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

" Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel. "

Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)

" I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. "

Jorge Luis Borges Argentine novelist & poet (1899 – 1986)

" To err is human, to purr is feline. "

Robert Byrne

" The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones. "

William Shakspeare, Julius Ceaser

" Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. "

Quida

" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "

Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 – 1933)

" Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. "

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

" All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. "

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

" Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. "

Carl Sagan US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)

" The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. "

H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”

" If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. "

Bernard M. Baruch US businessman & politician (1870 – 1965)

" Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. "

Elie Wiesel US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 – )

" I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. "

Leon Blum French politician (1872 – 1950)

" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. "

Jimmy Carter US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 – )

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