" Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. "

Richard Bach

" I could prove God statistically. "

George Gallup US statistician & pollster (1901 – 1984)

" …in the lexicon of the political class, the word “sacrifice” means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. "

George Will – Newsweek, 2/22/93

" I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe "

Leo Rosten US (Polish-born) author (1908 – )

" Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. "

Frank Dane

" Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. "

Phyllis Diller

" There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. "

Norman Douglas

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell. "

David Thomas

" Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. "

Frank W. Woolworth

" I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. "

Robert Orben

" Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. "

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe US science fiction novelist (1920 – 1986)

" For visions come not to polluted eyes. "

Mary Howitt

" If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gough

" Only the mediocre are always at their best. "

Jean Giraudoux French diplomat, dramatist, & novelist (1882 – 1944)

" A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. "

Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

" The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. "

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

" We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. "

Longfellow

" You must lose a fly to catch a trout. "

George Herbert English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 – 1633)

" Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of his
her life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behavior in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire. "

Sidney Madwed

" The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" Life is too short for traffic. "

Dan Bellack

" It is easier to believe than to doubt. "

Everett D. Martin

" The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. "

Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)

" Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. "

Chester Bowles US diplomat & economist (1901 – 1986)

" The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. "

Robert L Schwartz

" Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. "

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773)

" Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. "

Walter Winchell US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 – 1972)

" To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. "

Charles Buxton

" Break the leg of a bad habit. "

Puerto Rican Proverb

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