" It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! "

Emiliano Zapata

" I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph. "

Shirley Temple Black

" Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas. "

Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest

" The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. "

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

" Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. "

Margaret Lee Runbeck

" When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. "

Frank Sinatra US actor & singer (1915 – 1998)

" All children are essentially criminal. "

Denis Diderot French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 – 1784)

" I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. "

Dean Martin

" Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. "

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942) British historian (1876 – 1962)

" The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. "

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

" Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which “bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things,” which “thinks no evil.” "

Macduff

" The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. "

B. F. Skinner US psychologist (1904 – 1990)

" You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you. "

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

" After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. "

Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)

" If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? "

Albert Einstein.

" The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. "

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

" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick US clergyman (1878 – 1969)

" America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. "

John Quincy Adams US diplomat & politician (1767 – 1848)

" Do not follow where the path may lead…Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "

Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "

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

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "

R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance

" If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. "

J. M. Power

" It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. "

Henry James British (US -born) author (1843 – 1916)

" A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. "

Irish Proverb

" We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. "

Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)

" We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. "

Chazal

" Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid. "

C. M. Cox

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