" Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom "

H. G. Wells English author, historian, & utopian (1866 – 1946)

" Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run. "

Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

" Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. "

Eckhart Tolle

" No one can earn a million dollars honestly. "

William Jennings Bryan US lawyer, orator, & politician (1860 – 1925)

" What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? "

Irv Kupcinet

" There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. "

Jawaharlal Nehru Indian politician (1889 – 1964)

" It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. "

Hunter S. Thompson US journalist (1939 – 2005)

" Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. "

Sri Madhava

" In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. "

Doug Larson

" In everything one must consider the end. "

Jean De la Fontaine French poet (1621 – 1695)

" His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! "

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

" The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. "

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

" There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. "

Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6 US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

" We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths… and tell the world the glories of our journey. "

John Hope Franklin

" If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. "

Robert Fritz

" The falling drops at last will wear the stone. "

Lucretius Roman Epicurean poet, philosopher, & scientist (96 BC – 55 BC)

" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. "

Sydney Smith English essayist (1771 – 1845)

" One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. "

Hannah More

" When you have nothing to say, say nothing. "

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832)

" Oh! love!… That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. "

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13 French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants "

Isaac Newton, Paraphrase of 12th century quote by Bernard of Chartres English mathematician & physicist (1642 – 1727)

" Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

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

" Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. "

Raymond Chandler US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 – 1959)

" If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. "

Thomas H. Huxley English biologist (1825 – 1895)

" Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%. "

Langston Coleman

" Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. "

Rosalind Russell

" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "

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

" My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. "

Edith Sitwell English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 – 1964)

" It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. "

James Baldwin US author (1924 – 1987)

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