"Whatever is heroic in human beings lies not in the smart observer, but in the one who feels deeply and then endures."
- Bloodworth Thomason
"We flatter those we scarcely know, we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen
"Common sense is inspite of - not the result of - education."
- Victor Hugo
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
- Fred Allen
"I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
- Tammy Faye Bakker
"Don't be so humble, you are not that great."
- Golda Meir
"If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they'll kill you."
- Billy Wilder
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
- Alfred Adler
"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
- Tom Stoppard
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Ghandi
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan
"The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."
- unknown
"Every man dies. Not every man lives."
- Tim Robbins
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
- La Bruyere
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
-Rodney Dangerfield
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is." -Ellen DeGeners
"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
-George Carlin
