If I'm playing the music of yesterday, how can I play the music of today?
- Michael Graham Allen, aka Coyote Oldman, Native American flute maker and player

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.
- Arnold Glasow

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan

Each time history repeats itself, the price does up.
- Ronald Wright

A paradigm is a word too often used by those who would like to have a new idea but cannot think of one.
- Mervyn Allister King

An uneducated person blames someone else,
An educated person blames themself,
A wise person neither blames someone else, nor themself.

If you had three days to see, what would you choose to see in those days? Your answer to this question will teach you about what you truly love in your life.
- Helen Keller

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan

Life is a great adventure. It's not just getting from point-A to point-B, but 'How' and 'Who' you do it with!

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
- Warren Buffett

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A.H. Weiler

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.
- Sally Rand

Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
- John Perry Barlow

It's a heck of a lot easier to throw grenades than to catch them.
- President Lyndon Johnson

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Acting is the easiest thing in the world; just don't get caught doing it!
- Spencer Tracy

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
- Kris Kristofferson's line in song "Me and Bobby McGee"

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas H. Huxley

The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a "clock" can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
- Voltaire

Don't believe everything you think.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
- Jim Carrey

A lie can traverse the globe many times before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.
- Mark Twain

If the earth's population was shrunk to a village of 100 people, 52 of them would be female, 48 male.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
- Marshall McLuhan

What do we live for but to make sport for our neighbors and to laugh at them in return?
- Mr. Bennett, Pride & Prejudice

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
- Nicolas Boileau

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas Huxley

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a blessing.

God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called.

What doesn't come out in the wash will certainly come out in the rinse.

Going to church and sitting does not make you anymore a Christian than going to a garage and sitting on the floor makes you a mechanic.

Better to be a square in this world and to be aROUND in the next.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Mountains are made by the currents of rivers. Mountains are destroyed by the currents of rivers.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
- Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist – "Quiet Strength"

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
- William James

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
- Bertrand Russell

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor

Sometimes, silence is the most important part of a song.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?
- Satchel Paige

Weeds are flowers in disguise.

After enlightenment - the laundry.
- Zen saying

Life by the yard can be hard,

But life by the inch is a cinch.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
- Bill Gates

Illusion soothes reality.

Most religions teach love. Why then have so many people been killed in the name of religion?

Good fences make good neighbors.
- Robert Frost

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
- T.S. Eliot

I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
- John Wanamaker

Purpose is the primary life giver.
- Jim Cathcart

Desire is possibility seeking expression.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
- Fred A. Clark

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
- Thomas de Quincy

Even if you're on the right track - you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

When elephants fight, the grass suffers.
- African Proverb

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- H. L. Mencken

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

Love of money is the root of all evil. (1 Timothy 6:17, The Bible)

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (G.B. Shaw)

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
- Abigail Van Buren

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
- Sir James Goldsmith

It's been said that there are only two differences between the competition that led to the building of the Titanic, from the pages of modern history, and the Ark, from the pages of the Old Testament. We all know the first and obvious difference: the Titanic sank and the losses in human life were enormous. By contrast, the Ark saved human kind and all the animal kingdom. The second difference is less well known. The Titanic was built by professionals, driven by a spirit of overarching greed. The Ark, on the other hand, was built by Noah and his family of amateurs and was driven by a spirit born out of respect for all life on earth.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost

No great thing is created suddenly, anymore than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

Music will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
- John Phillip Sousa

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
- Fuller

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
- J.M. Straczynski

Sitting quietly
doing nothing
spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.
- Zen Poem

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
- Confucius (in The Doctrine of the Mean)

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel:
But it is the hole in the center upon which the use of the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while existence has advantages,
It is the emptiness that makes it useful.
- Lao Tzu, in the Tao Teh Ching

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work and the other is nostalgia.
- Frank Zappa

Nobody who can read is ever successful at cleaning out the attic.
- Franklin P. Jones

When you have got a good thing, where you want it, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
- Sir Winston Churchill

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - oh, there is where the artistry lies!
- Arthur Schnabel, among the 20th century's most respected and most important pianists responding to a reporter inquiring as to the secret of his genius

An acorn is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree
- David Zindell, The Broken God

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
- Ramsey Clark

The reason lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
- Willie Tyler

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to 50 words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
- Abraham Lincoln

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
- Jean Cocteau

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

A small newspaper clipping was found in a Bible over one hundred years old. There was no author or source of information named, just these few lines that, over the years, have even taken on more meaning and that make this point: "At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal, at fifteen he knows as much as his father, at twenty he knows twice as much, at thirty he is willing to take his advice, at forty he begins to think his father knows something after all, at fifty he begins to seek his advice and at sixty—after his father is dead—he thinks his father was the smartest man that ever lived."

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
- Bengamin Disraeli

"Dear God, look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in the world. Why don't you send help?"
God: "I did send help. I sent you."

When others throw bricks at you, use them to make a pathway to a successful future.
- Grant M. Bright

If you live long enough you'll see everything.
- The Talmud

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream

That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
- Voltaire

Are you feeling old? If not, consider this:
The people who are in their twenties were born in the 1980s, therefore:
They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.
The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
They may have heard of an 8-track, but chances are they probably have never actually seen or heard one.
The digital Disc was introduced when they were babies.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost over 30 cents.
They have always had an answering machine.
Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels.
They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
They never heard the term "Where's the beef?
Aspire to Inspire before you Expire.

Of the millions of birds in the sky just a few are eagles.

All the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one solitary life.
- Dr. James Allan Francis, describing the life of Jesus Christ

Death is nature's way of telling you to take better care of yourself.

"Who is that other, those 'others', to whom I entrust the task of being me?"

"Oh-no specific person!"

"Who is it that says what 'they say'? Who is the responsible subject of that social saying, the impersonal subject of 'they say'?

"Ah-the people! And the 'people' is not this person or that person - 'people' is always someone else, not exactly this one or that one - it is the pure 'other', the one who is nobody. 'People' is an irresponsible 'I', the 'I' of society, the social 'I'. When I live on what 'they say' and fill my life with it, I have replaced the I which I myself am in solitude with the mass 'I' - I have made myself 'people'. Instead of living my own life, I am de-living it by changing it to otherness."
- Ortega y Gasset, "Man and Crisis"

WHEN I ASKED GOD
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity and God gave me brawn and brain to work.
I asked for courage and God gave dangers to overcome.
I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.
My prayer has been answered.

Eternity is the only time measure that can do justice to all the possibilities life has to offer.
- "The Watchtower" magazine

One lifetime isn't enough. Just when you start to learn, it's time to go.
- Luis Marden, writer and photographer for six decades with National Geographic, died March 3, 2003

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
- From the poem 'Lost' - David Wagoner

We are a combination of nature and nurture, wired behavior and acquired behavior.
- Grant M. Bright

Wherever you go...There you are.
- Buckaroo Banzai

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
- Heisenberg

Some people like advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
- Adlai Stevenson

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitiable.
- John F. Kennedy

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
- Edward Dahlberg

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
- James Madison

He who defecates on the road will meet flies on his return.
- South African Saying

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Sigmund Freud

Action is eloquence.
- Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus'

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
- Sydney J. Harris

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

If my sister or I took one of those school examinations where you were required to answer only 10 questions out of 12, Mother's comment on hearing this would be, 'I hope you chose the hardest ones'.
- Margaret Bourke-White

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
- Napolean Bonaparte

Out of chaos, comes necessity.
Out of necessity, comes invention.
Out of invention, comes order.
And out order, comes chaos.

Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.
- The Eagles, from Take it Easy

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- Marcus Aurelius

Argument 1: If you don’t need it, you don’t have to have it.
Argument 2: Better to have it, and not need it...than need it, and not have it.

Work without purpose is insane; purpose with no work is nonsense.
- Ysaac J. Chabo

He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He who kneels before God can stand before any man.

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back, usually with friends.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.

Common sense ain't so common cause not everyone's got it.

Forbidden fruits create many jams.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
- Robert Frost

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- Ambrose Bierce

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do you realize how dumb the average person is? Well, half of the population is dumber than that.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
- Bumper Sticker

Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.

My is isn't my could be yet, but it's better than my was.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance Accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert Heinlein

How long a vigil does historical violence impose on us?
- Carlos Fuentes, Constancia

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

Living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Andersen

It’s easier to make a buck than it is to make a difference.
- Tom Brokaw

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?
- Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike

Always…the rhythmic, body-honing, soul-cleansing act of walking.
- Colin Fletcher

So many trails; so little time.
- Grant M. Bright

Everything is simpler than you think, and more complex than you imagine.
- Goethe

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

The world is not only queerer than we imagine – it is queerer than we can imagine.
- Aldous Huxley

The world is the way it is because otherwise there would be no one to ask why it is the way it is.
- Steven Weinberg

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy... is the true aim and end to life.
- Llewelyn Powers

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Red Auerbach

What is music? This question occupied my mind for hours last night before I fell asleep. The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between though and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it hovers between spirit and matter, related to both, yet differing from each. It is spirit, but it is spirit subject to the measurement of time. It is matter, but it is matter that can dispense with space.
- Heinrich Heine

Music, once admitted to the Soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living, as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy

Learn a new language and get a new soul.
- Czech proverb

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella W. Wilcox

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
- Robertson Davies

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

Those who are willing to speak their mind only while enveloped in a cloud of anonymity should not expect their thoughts to bask in the sunshine of acceptance.
- Grant M. Bright

A nation is born stoic and dies Epicurean.
- Durant

Wisdom is everywhere.

Uncommon wisdom is knowing how to apply it.
- from ad for Wachovia Securities

It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to love people and things outside our own will and this means that we have to have fear, hope, and grief.
- Martha Nussbaum

The role of the press is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
- Edward Willis Scripps, founder of the Scripps newspaper chain

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
-Michael Faraday

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Barry LePatner

Truth is so obscure in these times & falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
- Blaise Pascal

What can be said about the permanent risk of conflicts between nations, of civil wars, and of widespread violence, before which international organizations and national governments appear almost impotent? Faced with such threats, everyone must feel the moral duty to promote the cause of peace and understanding.
- Pope John Paul II, from speech relative to World Day of Peace, January 1, 2001

The word culture is taken from the word agriculture And agriculture is what is done to raw land to make it better than it was originally without changing its nature.
- Jacques Barzun

See life steadily and see it whole.
- Matthew Arnold

Thought begins in private, character in public.
- Goethe

We tire of things quickly, for example:
1st man on moon - everybody was involved in watching, most remember what the first man on the moon said: "A small step ... (complete for yourself)
2nd man on moon - watched if you happened to be home
3rd man on moon - had to hit a golf ball to get any attention
Yes, we get tired of things accomplished by humankind quickly.
But, how quickly do we get tired of:
- a beautiful sunset
- babbling brook
- cry of a newborn baby
We never get tired of the things God has made. We were made to live forever, to fully explore God's creations.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

It is easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

The most important 12 inch gaps in the universe exist between your head, your heart, your gut, and your hands.
- Grant M. Bright

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance.
Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and dedication alone are omnipotent.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
- Harry S. Truman

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
- H.T. Leslie

There is no abstract art. You must start with something.
- Pablo Picasso

Luck never gives, it only lends.
- Swedish Proverb

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
- Andy Rooney

Comedy is tragedy, plus time.
- Carol Burnett

Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants and then burn a hole in the coat.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
- Doug Larson

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein , attributed

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein , Out of My Later Years

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein , Out of My Later Years

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein , quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching.
- Yogi Berra

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- Jacob Bronowski , The Ascent of Man

Life can be lived serendipitously. Look for a serendipitious moment and be surprised by what comes.

Attending to symptoms,we lose our purpose.
- Shoma Morita

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- James Thurber

Don't waste a good imagination on worrying.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H.L. Mencken

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Timothy Leary

Patriotism: the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell

Patriotism: the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as an object.
- Hegel

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Salvador Hardin

We have met the enemy and he is us.
- Walt Kelly

The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle, leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes of the Puget Sound

Humans are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A child prodigy is usually one with highly imaginative parents.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
- Jean Paul Richter

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Marquis De La Grange

Don't write a check with your mouth that your body can't cash.

The time comes in every life when you feel like you are bowling from behind a curtain.

There are no free throws in life, even when you get fouled.
- Deborah Miller Palmore, Olympian, Basketball

One of my favorite sayings I got off a soda bottle: "No deposit, no return." To me that means that you'll get out of life about what you're willing to put into it.
- John Naber, Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist, Swimming

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about our history.

When everybody owns it, nobody takes care of it.

What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
- Philosophy of Coach John Wooden

Joy is not in things, it is in us.
- Benjamin Franklin

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
- Pascal

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.
- Pascal

In order to make a difference, you must first be able to tell the difference.
- Stuart Heller

Sometimes a thoroughbred has to do the work of a mule.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be kind.
- Herbert Spenser

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else so you expect to find it?
- Dogden

The price of greatness is responsibility
- Winston Churchill

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
- Robert Collier

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
- Burt Bacharach

Everything that is done in the world, is done by hope.
- Martin Luther

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
- Robert Collier

The trees that bend a little to the harmless breeze,
Will later grow to withstand the wild wind.

If there is no wind, row.

Good things happen when you make sure good things happen.

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It got so cold it froze up and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some manure on it. As it lay there in the pile of manure, it began to realize how warm it was. The manure was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the little bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of manure and promptly dug him out - and then ate him!
The morals of the story are:
1. Not everyone who drops manure on you is your enemy.
2. Not everyone who digs you out of a pile of manure is your friend
3. When you are in manure, keep your mouth shut!

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
- J.M. Clark

The only completely consistent people are dead.
- Aldous Huxley

There is nothing to scratch but the surface.

You stand in your own light.
- John Heywood

As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful.
As long as we have memories, yesterday remains.
As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits.

No job is too small to botch.

Take care of the beginning and the end will take care of itself.

Duty makes us do things well.
Love makes us do thing beautifully.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers

There are two kinds of cleverness. One consists of thinking of a bright remark in time to say it. The other consists of thinking of it in time not to say it.

What I can do, you cannot do. What you can do, I cannot do.
- Mother Teresa

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it themselves.

To look up and not down,
to look forward and not back,
to look out and not in; and
to lend a hand.
- Hale

Average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.

Things not worth doing, are not worth doing well.
- Kenneth Blanchard

But is an acronym for Behold the Underlying Truth.
- John Roger & Peter McWilliams

Suits, ties, and panty hose are not how you dress for adventure.
- Peter Block

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies accumulate.

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

No matter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time.

Don't complain that you are not getting what you want,
Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity,
He creates the right opportunity.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- John Truslow Adams

You never know how many apples there are in a seed.

The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
- Tony & Grant Bright

Things are more like they used to be than they are now.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer

You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose; but don't try to pick your friend's nose!

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
- William Gaddis

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
- Goethe

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Hean Nathan

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
- Moliere

Hindsight is an exact science.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
- Sir Isaac Newton

No generalization is true... including this one.

Don't wrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterson

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams

CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

One person's constant is another person's variable.
- Susan Gerhart

I tried gardening once. My garden was one hundred percent natural. It had no pesticides, no chemicals, no additives ... and no vegetables, no fruits and no flowers.

Pandora's Rule: Never open a box you didn't close.

Anytime you demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected; carefully planned projects only twice as long.

If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw

We have two ends,
With a common link;
With one we sit,
With one we think.
Success depends on what we use
Heads we win; tails we lose!

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

In an avalanche, each snowflake will claim its innocence.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion.

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
- Haitian Proverb

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
- H. L. Mencken

He who knows only his own generation remains forever a child.

If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed.

Past experience should be a guidepost, not a hitching post.

If one person calls you an ass, don't worry about it. But if four people call you an ass, you had better go out and buy yourself a saddle.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Anglund

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

You will not be punished FOR your anger. You will be punished BY your anger.

Circumstances do not make a man - they reveal him.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications ... are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Einstein

FANATIC: Someone who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

There is one thing to admire about TV-sitcom families - they never waste time watching television!

Empty wagons make the most noise.
- Mrs. Dukes, Nick's 8th grade teacher

You can see a lot by observing.
- Yogi Berra

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
- Ghandhi

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
- Peter Drucker

Experience is not what happens to a man. It's what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

We're all in this alone.
- Lily Tomlin

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B.F. Skinner

Life is complicated ... that's why it is fun!

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance.

Never disagree with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

No job is too small to botch.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: "Compound interest!"

There is nothing to scratch but the surface.

If crime doesn't pay ... and if we don't get paid for overtime ... isn't working overtime a crime?

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Without discipline, there is no life at all.
- Katharine Hepburn

Remember, we're all in this alone.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

No job is too small to botch.

It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. (I'm not exactly sure what this means or how it can be used but it sounds significant!)

Consider not how to work to make a living, but how to make a living work.

It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.

Pray as if it was all up to God. Work as if it was all up to you.

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove - BUT, the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

When the teacher is ready, the learners will come.

When the learner is ready, the teacher will come.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. - A. Huxley

If someone says that you are a "model" instructor, husband or whatever, just remember that a "model" is defined as "a small replica of the real thing"!

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
- Walt Whitman

You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Power is like being a lady ... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein

Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield.

I wonder WHY.
I WONDER why.
I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder.
- Richard Feynman, Nobel prize-winning physicist

According to your beliefs, so it is done unto you.
- Ancient Text

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a very small package.

Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

LIFE:
1. You do some stuff.
2. Some works.
3. You do more of the stuff that works.
4. What works is copied by others.
5. Go to step 1.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed ... Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle ... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

Publishing a book on poetry ... (substitute any other appropriate expression) ... is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
- Cathy Better

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

People are most lovable when they allow themselves to be vulnerable.

Cynicism is the protection of the mind against threatening thoughts, ideas and concepts.
Sarcasm is the protection of the tongue against threatening thoughts, ideas and concepts.

When man discovered the mirror (the social mirror of what others think of us), he began to lose his soul.

The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A critic is usually a person who knows the way but can't drive the car.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
- Robert Frost

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
- Ada Teixeira

Paradox: If you give up the need for security, you will be secure.

Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
- Doug King

The child is the father of the man.
- William Wordsworth

A winner loses more often than losers.

Never try to take a sip through a fire hose.

If you rest, you rust.

I'd rather know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no long in your power - he's free again.

Whatever you resist, persists.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot.
- Leslie Nielsen ("Hotshots! Part Deaux")

Patient, heal thyself!

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
- T.S. Eliot

This life is a test; it is only a test. If it were a real life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.
- Unknown

This life is a test! It is only a test. If it had been a real life I would have been given instructions on where to go and what to do.
- Anonymous

Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down inside I know that's not true. There are a few people who are probably neutral.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Nietzche

The reason lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
- Willie Tyler

Emotion is not something shameful, subordinate, second-rate; It is a supremely valid phase of humanity at its noblest and most mature.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
- Antoine Rivarol

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of the tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.
- Yogi Berra

Sometimes when you rationaLIZE what you are really doing is making up rational LIES.

You belong to a small, but select group of confused people.
- Message in fortune cookie

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Stephen Wright

Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Picasso

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

It's what you learn AFTER you think you know it all that counts.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

Time is a trick of nature, designed to prevent everything from happening at once.

In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
- P. Harvey

The child is constantly confronted with the nagging question: "What are you going to be?" Courageous would be the youngster who could look the adult squarely in the face and say, "I'm not going to BE anything; I already am." We adults would be shocked by such an insolent remark, for we have forgotten, if indeed we ever knew, that a child is an active, participating and contributing member of society from birth. Childhood isn't a time when he is molded into a human who will then live life; he is a human who is living life. No child will miss the zest and joy of living unless these are denied him by adults who have convinced themselves that childhood is a period of preparation.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Goethe

It's the little things in life that can "eat you alive": How many people here have ever been bitten by an elephant? How many people here have ever been bitten by a mosquito?

Al Juodikis's Rules of Life