" Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. "

William S. Burroughs US author (1914 – )

" Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. "

Henry Miller US author (1891 – 1980)

" To live happily is an inward power of the soul. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Great men are not always idiots "

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

" Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. "

George Jean Nathan US drama critic & editor (1882 – 1958)

" If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? "

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

" The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. "

Thomas H. Huxley English biologist (1825 – 1895)

" The postman always rings twice. "

James M. Cain, Book title US crime novelist & screenwriter (1892 – 1977)

" Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. "

Johann Georg Zimmermann

" True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. "

Pliny The Elder Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD – 79 AD)

" Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. "

Horace Mann US educator (1796 – 1859)

" It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. "

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

" A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "

Robertson Davies

" Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. "

Flavius Josephus, Life Jewish-Roman historian & turncoat (37 AD – 100 AD)

" Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach. "

Pearl Buck US novelist in China (1892 – 1973)

" Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. "

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

" What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. "

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

" An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. "

Michael Korda

" Trapped, like a trap in a trap. "

Dorothy Parker US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)

" Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. "

John Dryden English dramatist & poet (1631 – 1700)

" And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. "

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

" The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. "

Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

" A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain. "

Author Unknown

" I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. "

Marilyn C. Barrick

" Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. "

Jules Renard (1864 – 1910)

" To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. "

Chinese Proverb

" To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. "

Wendell Berry

" In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. "

A. E. Housman English classical scholar, poet, & satirist (1859 – 1936)

" Management is nothing more than motivating other people. "

Lee Iacocca US automobile businessman (1924 – )

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