Quote of the Day

2007-12-31T12:44:00.000-08:00

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

2007-12-30T09:01:00.000-08:00

"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."

Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)

2007-12-29T09:04:00.000-08:00

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

2007-12-28T07:42:00.000-08:00

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

Colin Powell (1937 - )

2007-12-27T10:11:00.000-08:00

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

2007-12-26T10:20:00.000-08:00

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

2007-12-25T09:28:00.000-08:00

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

2007-12-24T10:50:00.000-08:00

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

2007-12-23T05:32:00.000-08:00

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

2007-12-22T09:08:00.000-08:00

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."

David Russell (1958- )

2007-12-21T08:39:00.000-08:00

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

2007-12-20T07:37:00.000-08:00

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein (1944- )

2007-12-19T08:08:00.000-08:00

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

2007-12-18T08:19:00.000-08:00

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

2007-12-17T08:29:00.000-08:00

"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

2007-12-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

2007-12-15T10:17:00.000-08:00

"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

2007-12-14T07:32:00.000-08:00

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

2007-12-13T07:55:00.000-08:00

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)

2007-12-12T07:32:00.000-08:00

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

2007-12-11T09:37:00.000-08:00

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

2007-12-10T09:34:00.000-08:00

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

2007-12-09T09:35:00.000-08:00

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)

2007-12-08T09:23:00.001-08:00

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

2007-12-07T07:34:00.000-08:00

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

2007-12-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."

Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)

2007-12-05T07:18:00.000-08:00

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

2007-12-04T08:12:00.000-08:00

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

2007-12-03T07:15:00.000-08:00

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

2007-12-02T11:49:00.000-08:00

"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."

E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

2007-12-01T08:02:00.000-08:00

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

2007-11-30T08:58:00.000-08:00

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

2007-11-29T09:19:00.000-08:00

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

2007-11-28T09:07:00.000-08:00

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

2007-11-27T08:12:00.000-08:00

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

2007-11-26T08:04:00.000-08:00

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

2007-11-25T11:14:00.000-08:00

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

2007-11-24T08:54:00.000-08:00

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Joan Didion (1934 - )

2007-11-23T07:51:00.000-08:00

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

2007-11-22T09:06:00.001-08:00

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

2007-11-21T09:55:00.000-08:00

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

2007-11-20T08:56:00.000-08:00

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

2007-11-19T08:36:00.000-08:00

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

2007-11-18T08:36:00.000-08:00

"The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn."

James Allen (1864-1912)

2007-11-17T08:29:00.000-08:00

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

2007-11-16T07:40:00.000-08:00

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

2007-11-15T07:48:00.001-08:00

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

Michael Jordan (1963 - )

2007-11-14T08:34:00.000-08:00

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

Tom Clancy (1947 - )

2007-11-13T07:43:00.000-08:00

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas (1944 - )

2007-11-12T08:16:00.000-08:00

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

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

2007-11-11T07:16:00.000-08:00

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

2007-11-10T07:58:00.000-08:00

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

John Barth (1930 - )

2007-11-09T08:34:00.000-08:00

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

2007-11-08T07:55:00.000-08:00

"Dare to be yourself."

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

2007-11-07T07:07:00.000-08:00

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

2007-11-06T07:32:00.000-08:00

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

Al Franken (1951- )

2007-11-05T08:07:00.000-08:00

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."

Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

2007-11-04T08:59:00.001-08:00

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

2007-11-03T09:19:00.000-07:00

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

2007-11-02T07:09:00.000-07:00

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

2007-11-01T08:19:00.000-07:00

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

2007-10-31T08:19:00.000-07:00

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

2007-10-30T08:15:00.000-07:00

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

2007-10-29T07:28:00.000-07:00

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

2007-10-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

2007-10-27T08:54:00.000-07:00

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

2007-10-26T07:21:00.000-07:00

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

2007-10-25T07:35:00.000-07:00

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)

2007-10-24T07:13:00.000-07:00

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

2007-10-23T06:47:00.000-07:00

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

2007-10-22T08:04:00.000-07:00

"There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'"

Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

2007-10-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

2007-10-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

2007-10-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

2007-10-18T07:15:00.000-07:00

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."

Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)

2007-10-17T06:12:00.000-07:00

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

2007-10-16T08:59:00.000-07:00

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

2007-10-15T07:29:00.000-07:00

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)

2007-10-14T08:35:00.001-07:00

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

2007-10-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

2007-10-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou (1928 - )

2007-10-11T07:06:00.000-07:00

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.:

George Washington (1732 - 1799)

2007-10-10T08:50:00.000-07:00

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

2007-10-09T07:25:00.000-07:00

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

J. K. Rowling (1965- )

2007-10-08T06:57:00.000-07:00

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

2007-10-07T08:42:00.000-07:00

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

2007-10-06T09:37:00.000-07:00

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )

2007-10-05T06:37:00.000-07:00

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

2007-10-04T07:31:00.000-07:00

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

2007-10-03T07:05:00.001-07:00

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

2007-10-02T05:54:00.000-07:00

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

2007-10-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

2007-09-30T08:11:00.000-07:00

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

2007-09-29T08:35:00.000-07:00

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

2007-09-28T06:29:00.000-07:00

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

2007-09-27T08:02:00.000-07:00

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

2007-09-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

2007-09-25T07:21:00.000-07:00

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."

Alice Walker (1944 - )

2007-09-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

2007-09-23T09:01:00.000-07:00

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)