Tuesday, March 03, 2009

The future

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."--Eleanor Roosevelt

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Work

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

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Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."--Lao Tzu.

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Ignorance

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."--James Baldwin.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

successful people have a goal

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do."--Norman Vincent Peale

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Yesterday

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."--Pearl S. Buck

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Friday, July 25, 2008

History

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."--James A. Baldwin

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Monday, June 02, 2008

Humor

"Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, Barbara,
you should have remained a virgin."--Barbara Bush (mother of G.W.)

"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.""--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever
seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to
withdraw that statement."--Mark Twain

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."--George Burns

"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year."--Victor Borge

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."--Mark Twain

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."--Socrates

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."--Groucho Marx

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time
for my nap."--Bob Hope

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do
in it."--W.C. Fields

"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work
its way through Congress."--Will Rogers

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older,
it will avoid you."--Winston Churchill

"Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else
starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out."--Phyllis Diller

"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to
go anywhere."--Billy Crystal

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Elevate your life

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability
of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."--Henry David Thoreau

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."--Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who cannot read them."--Mark Twain

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passionately curious

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."-–Albert Einstein

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Universe

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."--Carl Sagan.

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