• Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Bacall, Lauren

• Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bach, Johann Sebastian

• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Bach, Richard

• Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends. (Illusions)

• Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

• I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

• When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is "What was the quality of our love?"

• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Bacon, Francis

• He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both...

• A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.

• Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Bader, Douglas

• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Baer, Arthur (Bugs)

• It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Baez, Joan

• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

• It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

• You don't get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Bagehot, Walter

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Baggott, W. (Mrs.)

• When Christmas bells are ringing
  The carols old and true
  Of you, dear friend, I'm thinking,
  And I send my wish to you. ("When Christmas Bells Are Ringing")

Bailey, Henry Christopher

• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Pearl

• There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you-if you don't repeat it.

• There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

• What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Baille, Joanna

• Busy work brings after ease;
  Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;
  For young and old, of all degrees,
  The mingled lot is best.

• A willing heart adds feather to the heel. (De Montfort)

Baker, Howard

• If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

Baker, Newton D.

• The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baldwin, Christina

• Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in your before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise. (Life's Companion)

Baldwin, Faith

• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ("July" Harvest of Hope)

Baldwin, James

• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

• He loved this street [42nd Street], not for the people or the shops but for the stone lions that guarded the great main building of the Public Library, a building filled with books and unimaginably vast, and which he had never yet dared to enter.

• Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

• To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. ("My Dungeon Shook" The Fire Next Time)

Balfour, Frances

• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent tolerance; to a friend your heart; to your child a good example; to a father deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself respect; and to all men charity. (Maitland)

Ball, Ivern

• A hug is the perfect gift--one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.

Ball, Lucille

• I think knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. (The Real Story of Lucille Ball by Harris)

• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Ballantyne, Sheila

• You have to ask the questions and attempt to find answers, because you're right in the middle of it; they've put you in charge--and during a hurricane too.

Balzac, Honore de

• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

• Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. It is something I cannot explain, something within that sends a glow of warmth all through you.

Bambera, Toni Cade

• The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

• The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Bamberen, Sergio

• Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. (The Dolphin)

Banana, Lana

• What are the three words a man can say to a woman to make her happy? "I was wrong!"

Bannister, Roger

• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Barad, Jill E.

• My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."

Barbara, Joseph

• Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)

Barber, Benjamin R.

• Injuries too well remembered cannot heal. (Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy)

Barcott, Bruce

• The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

Bardwick, Judith M.

• Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself--your strengths and your limitations--in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

Barfield, Jesse

• I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Barker, Joel

• Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.

Barlow, John Perry

• But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

Barnum, P. T.

• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Barr, Amelia

• Forethought spares afterthought. (Jen Vedder's Wife)

• ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

Barr, Shari R.

• Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

Barrett, Colleen C.

• Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrie, James Matthew

• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

• Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

• We are all failures--at least, the best of us are.

• You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Barrow, John D.

• We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. (The Origin of the Universe)

Barry, Frank R.

• Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it.

Barrymore, Ethel

• You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Barsoux, J.

• Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.

Barton, Bruce

• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Baruch, Bernard

• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

• Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Barzine, Luigi

• I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request. (O America)

Barzun, Jacques

• Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.--Jacques Barzun

• In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Teacher in America)

Bash 'N the Code

• Who do you want to barbecue today? Someone who doesn't see things quite our way?

Bateman, W. L.

• If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

Bates, Daisy

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Bateson, Gregory

• Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition ... we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science. ("Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" in Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology)

Bateson, Mary Catherine

• The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

• Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. (Composing a Life)

• Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

• Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. (With a Daughter's Eye)

Battista, Orlando A.

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Baughan, R. J.

• Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

• We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baum, L. Frank

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Bay, John

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Beaman, Glen

• Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Beard, Miriam

• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. (Realism in Romantic Japan)

Beaton, Cecil (Sir)

• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, M. C.

• A library is a palace of dreams.

Beattie, Melody

• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Beatty, Parkenham

• By your own soul, learn to live
  And if men thwart you take no heed.
  If men hate you have no care.
  Sing your song, dream your dream,
  Hope your hope and pray your prayer.

Beatty, Warren

• There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play.

Beauvoir, Simone de

• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Beck, Martha

• Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. (Expecting Adam)

Beckett, Samuel

• Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Beckwith, Harry

• Take ... the path that runs along the cliff--that one, the one without any guardrails. Take that path, and know the exhilaration of the ride and the pride you feel when you reach the end will inspire you to take that path again and again. And that experience ... every day, will make you more fulfilled, more complete, and more alive. (What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business)

Beecher, Henry Ward

• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. (Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit)

• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

• Don't look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher)

• "I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note--torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

• It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

• It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today; enjoy it and bless God for it.

• Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

• Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

• The unthankful heart ... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and. As the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Beerbohm, Max

• There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Beesley, Robert

• We can do more work in the silence than we can by moving the lips and letting the mouth make a continuous noise. That interferes with our own thinking as well as with other people's. There is a stillness in a thinker's mind; there is a quietness in a thinker's presence, where even words are entirely unnecessary.

Beh, Siew Hwa

• To realize our goals, we must first imagine them fully.

Bejar, Heda

• The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

Belfie, Mary Jane

• Something special happens when people laugh together over something genuinely funny, and not hurtful to anyone. It's like a magic rain that showers down feelings of comfort, safety and belonging to a group.

Bell, Alexander Graham

• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider--and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation--persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Bellamy, Carol

• You need to get up in the morning and say, "Boy, I'm going to--in my own stupid way--save the world today.".

Belloc, Hilaire

• From quiet homes and first beginning,
  Out to the undiscovered ends,
  There's nothing worth the winning,
  But laughter and the love of friends. ("Dedicatory Ode" Verses)

Ben-Gurion, David

• Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Benchley, Robert

• Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Bender, Bix

• If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

Bender, Dorothy

• Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Benedict, Agnes E. and Adele Franklin

• Trips do not end when you return home--usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin. (The Happy Home)

Benet, Stephen Vincent

• Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benge, Eugene

• Getters don't get--givers get.

Bengis, Ingrid

• For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Bennett, Arnold

• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

• In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas. (Journals)

• We shall never have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Bennett, Jesse Lee

• Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Bennett, Margot

• As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.

Bennett, Robert F.

• A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

• Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Bennett, William J.

• Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them. (The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories 3)

Bennis, Warren G.

• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

• Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

• What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

• You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Benson, A. C.

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Benson, Edward White

• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Berdyeav, Nicholas

• Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin. (The Destiny of Man)

• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source. (The Destiny of Man)

Berenboim, Daniel

• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. (International Herald Tribune, Jan. 20. 1989)

Berenson, Bernard

• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

• Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Berger, Sally

• Don't turn a small problem into a big problem--say yes to your mother.

Bergman, Ingrid

• I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Bergson, Henri L.

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Berk, Juliene

• Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Berne, Eric

• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Bernhardt, Sarah

• Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Bernstein, Al

• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Berry, Halle

• I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

Berry, Wendell

• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Besant, Annie

• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Bethune, Mary McLeod

• Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Bevan, Oliver

• Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Bhagavad-Gita

• If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.

• The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world.

Bianco, Frank

• If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

Bibesco, Elizabeth

• Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

• Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

• The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Bill, J. Brent

• This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine. (Holy Silence: the Gift of Quaker Spirituality)

Billings, Josh

• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

• I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

• Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

• There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Bird, Rose Elizabeth

• It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Bishop, Claire Huchet

• Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

Bishop, Jim

• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Bishop, Nancy

• What the world needs now is for each of us to be who we truly are, and to bring our gifts into the world. Don't hold back any longer. Be Present, Be You. That is enough. Really it is. ("Getting To Know YOU")

Bissell, Emily P.

• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Bissett, Jacqueline

• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Bissett, Josie

• Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Bissonette, Susan J.

• An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Reader's Digest)

Black, Betty

• This time of year means being kind
  to everyone we meet,
  To share a smile with strangers
  we may pass along the street. ("This Time of Year")

Black Elk

• There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men.

Black, Shirley Temple

• Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

Blades, Reuben

• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Blair, Gary Ryan (To order Mind Munchies Click here!)

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit? (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Everyone fails. But that doesn't mean you must identify yourself as a failure. Failure applies to a situation, a particular time and place. If you don't let it devastate you, failure can be an opportunity: for learning, for recovery, for the creation and demonstration of character. No one wins all the time. Learn to take your losses, learn from them if possible, and move on. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality doesn't discriminate. Reality is not different for different people. Not once has reality excused anyone for good intentions ignorance or stubbornness. Reality shows no mercy, accepts no excuses, and issues no pardons. Reality does not "turn the other cheek." This does not mean that reality is cruel, it just means that reality is. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

• Innovation is a lot like excellence in any endeavor. Difficult but manageable to do once, infinitely harder to produce consistently. Think about all those one-hit wonders that had a single record or very possibly a single song. They disappear without a trace. What distinguishes a true star from his or her contemporaries is an ability to pull off feats of brilliance repeatedly. And it's no accident! (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Know the limits of what you can expect from yourself and those around you. Be willing to push those limits, but understand that pushing beyond them is subject to one of the few absolute laws that govern human nature: the law of diminishing returns. Pushed beyond limits, people work inefficiently, poorly, and even counterproductively. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Let there be no doubt: as long as you continue to blame others instead of assuming your responsibilities, you will make no meaningful and enduring change for the better. What kind of people are we, if we don't have the character to own up to our own shortcomings and responsibilities? To have and enjoy certain liberties requires us to hold each other and ourselves accountable for our actions. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.

• Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Success demands focus. It is the hallmark of all truly great people. Your ability to get and remain focused or lack thereof is perhaps the key determinant of your success.--ary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• When it comes to practicing good ethics, saying no to a vice is not good enough. A quality life is never achieved by focusing on the elimination of what is wrong. True success requires you to focus your mental, emotional, and spiritual energies on pursuing that which is right and good. Trying to become virtuous merely by excluding vice is as unrealistic as trying to cultivate roses simply by eliminating weeds. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

Blake, William

• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

• Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell
  There God is dwelling too.

Blakeley, Mary Kay

• A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. ("The Pros and Cons of Motherhood" in Pulling Our Own Strings ed. by Blakeley and Kaufman)

Blakeslee, Edward

• Your most brilliant ideas come in a flash, but the flash comes only after a lot of hard work. Nobody gets a big idea when he is not relaxed and nobody gets a big idea when he is relaxed all the time.

Blanchard, Kenneth H.

• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Blanton, Smiley

• To be happy, drop the words if only and substitute instead the words next time.

• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova (Madame)

• To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, will put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders.

Blessington (Lady)

• People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes. (The Confessions of an Elderly Lady)

Bliss, Edwin

• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

Bloch, Alice

• We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.

Blofeld, John

• If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.

Bloom, Allan

• Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ("Values" The Closing of the American Mind)

Blos, Joan W.

• So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

Blotnick, Srully

• The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing... The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blum, Leon

• The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Boardman, George D.

• Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny.

Bode, Richard

• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. (First You Have to Row a Little Boat)

Boetcker, William J. H.

• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Boethius

• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. (De Institutione Music)

Bohr, Niels

• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. (in The Quantum Dice by Ponomarev)

• The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Boileau, Nicolas

• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Bolt, Robert

• If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human al all … why then, perhaps we must stand fast a little--even at the risk of being heroes. (A Man for All Seasons)

Bolton, Martha

• I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to. (I Love You Still)

Bombeck, Erma

• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

• He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ... but he was never in them. (Family--the Ties that Bind ... And Gag)

• Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises. (in "She Said What? Interviews With Newspaper Columnists")

• If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

• There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression)

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.

Bon, Gustav le

• The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. (The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind)

Bonder, Rabino Nilton

• Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actual a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Bonnano, Margaret

• It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

Bonnell, John Sutherland

• So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bono, Edward de, see de Bono, Edward

Boone, Pat

• The Christmas spirit--love--changes hearts and lives.

Boone, Shirley

• Freedom comes in individual packages. (One Woman's Liberation)

Boorstin, Daniel

• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ("A Case of Hypochondria" Newsweek, July 6, 1970)

• Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

• The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

• Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. (The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America)

• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

• The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal. (The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America)

• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Borden, Win

• As you attempt to make big differences, remember to appreciate the small differences. And remember that you don't always have to reach the goal you set in order to make a difference.

• Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.

Borenstein, David

• One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Borg, Marcus

• The story of Holy Week as Mark and the other gospels tell it enables us to hear the passion of Jesus-what he was passionate about-that led to his execution. His passion was the kingdom of God, what life would be like on earth if God were king, and the rulers, domination systems, and empires of this world were not. It is the world that the prophets dreamed of-a world of distributive justice in which everybody has enough and systems are fair. And it is not simply a political dream. It is God's dream, a dream that can only be realized by being grounded ever more deeply in the reality of god, whose heart is justice. Jesus's passion got him killed. But God has vindicated Jesus. This is the political meaning of Good Friday and Easter. (and Dominic Crossen The Last Week)

Borges, Jorge Luis

• Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Borland, Hal

• [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere. ("The Wonder")

• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

• There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

• The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Born, Max

• The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war…or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

Bosone, Reva Beck

• The biggest need in politics and government today is for people of integrity and courage, who will do what they believe is right and not worry about the political consequences to themselves.

Boswell, Nelson

• The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Bottome, Phyllis

• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. (Survival)

• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

• To be in the right is often an expensive business. (Danger Signals)

• Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. (Under the Skin)

Bouhours, Dominique

• Money is a good servant, but a poor master.

Boulard, Henri

• Never say that you have no time. On the whole it is those who are busiest who can make time for yet more, and those who love more leisure time who refused to do something when asked. What we lack is not time, but heart.

Bourne, Randolph

• We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Bovee, Christian Nestell

• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

• Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. (in Peter's Quotations by Peter)

Bovee, John Christian

• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give. (Friends and Fiddlers)

• Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Bowen, Elizabeth

• The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

• Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

• Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much ... of my writing is verbal painting. (in Elizabeth Bowen by Glendinning)

• Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Bowman, Dee

• All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond. (That's Life!)

Boyle, Sarah Patton

• To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

Boynton, Sandra

• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter a, e, or u is the proper time for chocolate. (Chocolate: the Consuming Passion)

Bracken, Peg

• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. (I Didn't Come Here to Argue)

Brackett, Anna

• Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use. (The Technique of Rest)

Bradbury, Ray

• Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. (Fahrenheit 451)

• Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

• Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (Fahrenheit 451)

• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ("Mojave Magazine")

• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Bradley, Bill

• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

• Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" (Value of the Game)

• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Bradley, Omar (General)

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

• The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. (in a speech in Boston, Mass, 11/10/48)

Bradstreet, Anne

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ("Meditations Divine and Moral")

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Bragg, William Lawrence (Sir)

• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. (in Beyond Reductionism by Koestler and Smithies)

Braiker, Harriet

• Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Branch, Anna Hempstead

• God wove a web of loveliness, of clouds and stars and birds, but made not anything at all so beautiful as words.

Brand, Stewart

• Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz

• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

• Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Braque, Georges

• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. (Pensées sur l'Art)

Brault, Robert

• Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Breedlove, Craig

• There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Brenan, Gerald

• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. ("Life" Thoughts in a Dry Season: a Miscellany)

Brennan, Stephan A.

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Breo, Dennis L, see Eliot, Robert S.

Bressack, Gordon, and Charles M. Howell IV

• In Italy under the Borgias they had thirty years of murder, bloodshed, and warfare, and they produced indigestible noodles, boring operas, and the Fiat. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese in the world, and Heidi. (see also Graham Greene for the original of this quote)

Brethnach, Sarah Ban

• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

• Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content."

• Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

• ...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.

Brice, Fanny

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Briggs, Dean

• Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest.

Brightbill, C. K.

• The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.

Brilliant, Ashliegh

• Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

Briner, Bob

• We do not have to be the best to be effective, but we do have to be at our best. (Roaring Lambs)

Brinton, Mark W. B.

• The measure of a man, sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity.
  You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.

Bristol, Claude M.

• It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Britton, Catherine

• Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...

Bro, Margueritte Harmon

• Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on. (Sarah)

Brock, Lou

• If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Bronowski, Jacob

• That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. (The Ascent of Man)

Bronte, Charlotte

• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. (Jane Eyre)

Bronte, Emily

• I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Brooks, Gwendolyn

• We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. ("Bond")

Brooks, Joseph

• There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.

Brooks, Mel

• I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively. (in The Best of Bits & Pieces)

Brooks, Phillips

• Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

• Character may be manifested in the greatest moments, but it is made in the small ones.

• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

• Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

• The earth has grown old with its burden of care
  But at Christmas it always is young,
  The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair
  And its soul full of music breaks the air,
  When the song of angels is sung.

• Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing--where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

• Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Brothers, Joyce

• Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

• Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions. ("Reconnect With Your Family" Parade Magazine 11/4/2001)

• The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

• Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. (How to Get What You Want Out of Life)

• Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Brotherton, J.

• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Broude, Dorothea

• All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Broughton, James

• The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Brower, Charles

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Brown, Gene

• Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

• One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

Brown, H. Jackson

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

• Empower your dreams with deadlines.

• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage and determination.

• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)

• Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. (A Hero in Every Heart)

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Jut because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

• Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away. (Life's Little Instruction Book)

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

• Remember that the only time you really lose is when you're not giving it 100 percent. (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)

Brown, Helen Gurley

• The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, J. A. C.

• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time. (Techniques of Persuasion)

Brown, Joan Winmill

• Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

Brown, Les

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Pam

• The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.

• Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

• We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

Brown, Rita Mae

• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. (Starting From Scratch)

• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. (Starting from Scratch)

• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

• The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. (Starting From Scratch)

Brown, Robert R.

• Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand...

Browne, Merry

• The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

• You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Browne, Thomas (Sir)

• All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

• By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. (Religio Medici)

• Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. (Religio Medici)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

• An ignorance of means may minister
  To greatness, but an ignorance of aims
  Make it impossible to be great at all. (Casa Guidi Windows)

• Light tomorrow with today!

Browning, Robert

• Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
  Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

• The year's at the spring
  And day's at the morn;
  Morning's at seven;
  The hillside's dew-pearled;
  The lark's on the wing;
  The snail's on the thorn:
  God's in his heaven--
  All's right with the world!

Brownlee, Paula P

• To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Brownowski, Jacob

• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. (The Ascent of Man)

• Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

Bruck, Yvonne Brathwaite

• When I walk into a room I assume I have to prove myself. I know that. I'm accustomed to that. But I also know I can prove myself.

Brueggemann, Walter

• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness--dressed for the work that is to be done.

Brunet, Jerome

• You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.

Brunner, John

• There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."

Bruno, Giordano

• It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Brunton, Paul

• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

• Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Brussat, Mary Ann

• Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Bryan, William Jennings

• Destiny is not a 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.

• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

• The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Bryant, William Cullen

• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Buber, Martin

• Play is the exultation of the possible.

• Solitude is the place of purification. (I and Thou, 3)

Buck, Pearl S.

• All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. (To My Daughters, With Love)

• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (My Several Worlds)

• People on the whole are very simpleminded in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than not, the things their leaders tell them.

• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word--excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

• There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be.

• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. (The Joy of Children)

• The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. ("My Neighbor's Son" To My Daughters With Love)

• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it.

Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton

• Talents, like intelligence, are value neutral. If you want to want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents. (Now, Discover Your Talents)

Buckley, Gail Lumet

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves.

Buddha

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought... If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him... If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

• A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

• However many holy words you read,
  However many you speak,
  What good will they do you
  If you do not act on upon them?

• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

• An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

• On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger… Let a man overcome anger by love.

• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buechner, Frederick

• Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of Jesus that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that Jesus tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

Buffett, Jimmy

• I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. (A Pirate Looks At 50)

• It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

• Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. (A Pirate Looks At 50)

• Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc de

• Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

• Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Bukowksi, Charles

• I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

Bulock, Wynn

• If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.

Bulwar-Lytton, Edwin

• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

• Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common--inquisitiveness.

Bunche, Ralph J.

• Heads are wisest when they are cool and hearts are strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. (in Forbes Magazine, 23 Jan 1989)

Bunner, H. C.

• Shakespeare was a dramatist of note
  who lived by writing things to quote.

Buntain, Alpha L.

• And so, this Christmas season
  may our hearts with gladness glow,
  As we read the blessed story
  That took place so long ago. ("The First Christmas")

Bunyan, John

• A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

Burdette, Robert Jones

• There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other ... is Tomorrow.

Burge, Hubert de

• In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

Burgess, Joy Bell

• May the song of Christmas
  Be music to your ears
  A symphony of love
  That resounds throughout the year. ("Contemplations")

Burke, Billie

• Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Burke, Edmund

• Good order is the foundation of all things. (Reflections on the Revolution in France)

• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

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

• Patience will achieve more than force.

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Burket, Gail Brook

• I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.
  I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
  Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
  And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

• May joy be yours today,
  And radiantly abide
  Within your heart until
  Another Christmastide. ("May Joy Be Yours Today")

Burkett, Larry

• Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question. (Business by the Book)

Burkitt, Janet

• We in the Seattle area are polite. Famously, indefatigably--some have even gone so far as to say offensively--polite. Our politeness is nationally ranked--No. 8 on a survey last year--and locally treasured. D.C. might have better museums, we tell ourselves, Los Angeles better weather, but do their citizens wait for that flashing "WALK" sign? (The Seattle Times, Jan. 30, 2000)

Burnett, Carol

• I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Burnett, Frances Hobson

• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Burnett, Leo

• To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

• When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Burney, Fanny

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. (Evelina)

Burnham, Colette

• Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly.

Burney, George P.

• "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has performed miracles.

Burns, Dr. David D.

• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Burns, George

• Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out--and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

• I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

• Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

Burns, Robert

• The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
  gang aft a-gley. ("To a Mouse") [Popularly misquoted as: The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, or The best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray.]

Burr, Aaron

• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Burroughs, John

• The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

• The secret of happiness is something to do.

• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring--- these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

Burroughs, Nannie

• Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

Burstyn, Ellen

• What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Burton, Henry

• Have you had a kindness shown?
  Pass it on!
  'Twas not given for thee alone,
  Pass it on!
  Let it travel down the years,
  Let it wipe another's tears,
  'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
  Pass it on!

Buscaglia, Leo

• Change is the end result of all true learning.

• The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

• Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

• It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

• Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

• The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. it's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Bush, Barbara

• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

• Believe in something larger than yourself… Get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Bush, George Herbert Walker

• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

• Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

• We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. (actually written by Peggy Noonan)

Bush, Vannevar

• Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. (Science is Not Enough)

Butler, Samuel

• All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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