Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible ~ Tony Robbins #quote

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. ~ Albert Camus #quote

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. ~ Maya Angelou #quote

Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner #quote

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ~ Charles Dickens #quote

You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate. ~ Unknown #quote

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ~ Dave Barry #quote

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation. ~ Deepak Chopra #quote

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the hearthe mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love. ~ Mother Teresa #quote

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ~ Alistair Cooke #quote

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. ~ Raymond Chandler #quote

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. ~ Fidel Castro #quote

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.  ~ (Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II)

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Charles Dickens #quote

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. ~ Albert Camus #quote

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ~ Rene Descartes #quote

Do not let spacious plans for a new world drive your energies from saving what is left of the old. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!  They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.  ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match! #quote

If you can laugh with a person, you can work with a person. #OneLiners

Necessity has no law. ~ Oliver Cromwell #quote


It's always Now.  ~ Eckhatolle #quote

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death~ourselves. ~ Eda LeShan #quote

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series. ~ Dave Barry #quote

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. ~ Honoure de Balzac #quote, Treatise on Modern Stimulants

One of Scotland's royal mottos is "Nemo me impune lacessit" - "Nobody provokes me with impunity. #Factoids

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. ~ Albert Camus #quote

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #quote

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.  ~ John Aikin #quote

I’m sorry I haven’t been funny. I am not a comedian. I am Lenny Bruce. ~ Lenny Bruce #quote

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote

Put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you find it hurting you then it probably hurts them too. ~ Unknown #quote

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. ~ Unknown #quote

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. ~ Isak Dinesen #quote

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. ~ Honore de Balzac, Father Goriot #quote

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a moustache. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~ William Faulkner #quote

I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution. ~ George Carlin #quote