" Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. "

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

" It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. "

Dame Rose Macauley

" Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. "

Socrates, In “1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,” ed. Robert Byrne, 1988 Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. "

Arthur Brisbane, “The Book of Today”

" Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. "

Robert Orben

" You can never plan the future by the past. "

Edmund Burke Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. "

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

" The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. "

Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )

" The dark today leads into light tomorrow;
There is no endless joy,
…and yet no endless sorrow. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. "

Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)

" We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. "

Stephen Hawking English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

" The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. "

Nelson Boswell

" Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. "

Henri Bergson French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 – 1941)

" Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. "

Andrew Young

" We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. "

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

" A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. "

Washington Irving US essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 – 1859)

" The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction. "

Dr. Henry Gibbons

" When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. "

Jacob Riis

" The body is a sacred garment. "

Martha Graham US choreographer & dancer (1893 – 1991)

" In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. "

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

" Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself… know what you want. "

Janet Fitch, “White Oleander”

" A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. "

Washington Irving US essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 – 1859)

" I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. "

Emily Dickinson US poet (1830 – 1886)

" Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. "

Henry Louis Mencken

" In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. "

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic poet (1265 – 1321)

" Black holes are where God divided by zero. "

Stephen Wright

" All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. "

Baltasar Gracian

" Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present – which seldom happens to us. "

Jean De La Bruyere French moralist (1645 – 1696)

" Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. "

M. Scott Peck

" Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. "

Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940 French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

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