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May 2, 2008
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -
Oscar Wilde

May 1, 2008
"More people, on the whole, are humbugged by knowing nothing, than by believing too much." - P. T. Barnum

April 30, 2008
"The price of greatness is responsibility.
" -
Winston Churchill

"The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast." - Buddha

April 28, 2008
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
" -
Winston Churchill

April 27, 2008
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." - John Stuart Mill

April 26, 2008
"Prophecy is the wit of a fool." - Vladimir Nabokov

April 25, 2008
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw

April 24, 2008
"To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
" -
Madame de Stael

April 23, 2008
"If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with the women." - Mahatma Gandhi

April 22, 2008
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." -
Oscar Wilde

April 21, 2008
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
" -
Charles de Gaulle

April 20, 2008
"There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
" - Andre Maurois

April 19, 2008
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - Earl Weaver (born 1930), former Baltimore Orioles manager

April 18, 2008
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - Sydney J. Harris

April 17, 2008
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." -
Oscar Wilde

April 16, 2008
"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
" -
Aeschylus

April 15, 2008
"If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.  If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference." - Abraham Lincoln

April 14, 2008
"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
" -
Aeschylus

April 13, 2008
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

April 12, 2008
"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift

April 11, 2008
"Take from me the hope that I can change the future, and you will send me mad." -
Israel Zangwill, English dramatist (1864-1926)

April 10, 2008
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.  Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - U.S. Army Gen. Omar N. Bradley

April 9, 2008
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." -
Oscar Wilde

April 8, 2008
"In war, you win or lose, live or die
—and the difference is just an eyelash." -
U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur

April 4, 2008
"I didn't invent the world I write about
—it's all true." - Graham Greene

April 3, 2008
"One can acquire everything in solitude
—except character." -
Stendhal

April 2, 2008
"Speech happens to not be his language.
" -
Madame de Stael

April 1, 2008
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." - Arab proverb

March 31, 2008
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
" -
Winston Churchill

March 30, 2008
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf

March 29, 2008
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Journalist Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)

 March 28, 2008
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
" -
Andre Maurois

March 27, 2008
"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
" -
Aeschylus

March 26, 2008
"Uninterpreted truth is as useless as buried gold." - Lytton Strachey

March 25, 2008
"Not to be able to grow old is just as ridiculous as to be unable to outgrow childhood." - Carl G. Jung

March 24, 2008
"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured." -
Stendhal

March 23, 2008
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." - C.S. Lewis

March 22, 2008
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities." -
Oscar Wilde

March 21, 2008
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous." - Robert Ingersoll, lawyer and politician (1833-1899)

March 20, 2008
"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
" - Oscar Wilde
 

March 19, 2008
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them." - Clare Boothe Luce

March 18, 2008
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty." -
Winston Churchill
 

March 17, 2008
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot.  In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." -
Oscar Wilde

March 16, 2008
"The destruction of each man is to be found in the pity he saves for himself." - Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son

March 15, 2008
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." - Livy

March 14, 2008
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
" -
Buddha

March 13, 2008
"Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone." - Miguel de Cervantes

March 12, 2008
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertholt Brecht

March 11, 2008
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.  If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

March 10, 2008
"When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
" -
Aeschylus

March 9, 2008
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -
Oscar Wilde

March 8, 2008
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
" -
Aeschylus

March 7, 2008
"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
" -
Charles de Gaulle

March 6, 2008
"To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

March 5, 2008
"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.  Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." - D. H. Lawrence

March 4, 2008
"Remember your theories well, but forget them when you touch the miracle of the human soul." - Carl Jung

March 3, 2008
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." -

Winston Churchill

 March 2, 2008
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -
Oscar Wilde

March 1, 2008
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger." - Paul Klee

February 29, 2008
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire

February 28, 2008
"All that is human must be retrograde if it does not advance." - Edward Gibbon

February 27, 2008
"A true friend stabs you in the front." -
Oscar Wilde

February 26, 2008
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom." - British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

February 25, 2008
"God always strives together with those who strive.
" -
Aeschylus

February 24, 2008
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
" -
Winston Churchill

February 23, 2008
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
- Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1892-1954)

February 22, 2008
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
" -
Madame de Stael

February 21, 2008
"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." - Adlai E. Stevenson

February 20, 2008
"I am not young enough to know everything." -
Oscar Wilde

February 19, 2008
"People who love animals / once loved people." - Howard Brook

February 18, 2008
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
"
 -
Winston Churchill

February 17, 2008
“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
- Tommy Douglas (Canadian Provincial Premier)

 February 16, 2008
"Call no man happy till he is dead." -
Aeschylus

February 15, 2008
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." -
Winston Churchill

February 14, 2008
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason." - C. S. Lewis

February 13, 2008
"Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." - Francis Bacon (from On Death)

February 12, 2008
"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action." -
Madame de Stael

February 11, 2008
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect." - Francis Bacon (from Of Beauty)

February 10, 2008
"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong." -
Winston Churchill

February 9, 2008
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend." -
Aeschylus

February 8, 2008
"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline." - O. A. "Bum" Phillips

February 7, 2008
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Aristotle

February 6, 2008
"Politics in America is the binding secular religion." - Theodore H. White

February 5, 2008
"Kites rise highest against the wind—not with it." - Winston Churchill

February 4, 2008
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more." - Oscar Wilde

February 3, 2008
"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other." - William Faulkner

February 2, 2008
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -
Winston Churchill

February 1, 2008
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
-
Oscar Wilde

January 31, 2008
"Never, never, never give up.
" -
Winston Churchill

January 30, 2008
"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." -
Winston Churchill

January 29, 2008
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
" -
Buddha

January 28, 2008
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
" -
Aeschylus

January 27, 2008
"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us." -
Madame de Stael

January 26, 2008
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
" -
Andre Maurois

January 25, 2008
"His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be." -
Aeschylus

January 24, 2008
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
 - Oscar Wilde

January 23, 2008
"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise." - English politician Henry Broadhurst (1840-1911)

January 22, 2008
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
 - George Burns

January 21, 2008
"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor." - Letitia Landon

January 20, 2008
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears." - Rudyard Kipling

January 19, 2008
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." -
Aeschylus

January 18, 2008
"I like to learn, but I do not always like to be taught." - Winston Churchill

January 17, 2008
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
" -
Aeschylus

January 16, 2008
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill

January 15, 2008
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 14, 2008
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
" -
Buddha

January 13, 2008
"God's greatest gift to man is decency of mind." - Aeschylus

January 12, 2008
"
Never relinquish the initiative." -
Charles de Gaulle

January 11, 2008
"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence." -
Aeschylus

January 10, 2008
"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
" -
Madame de Stael
 

January 9, 2008
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves." -
Winston Churchill

January 8, 2008
"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it." -
Stendhal

January 7, 2008
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him." -
Aeschylus

January 6, 2008
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
" -
Aeschylus

January 5, 2008
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde

January 3, 2008
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm." -
Aeschylus

January 2, 2008
"
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." - Winston Churchill

January 1, 2008
"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter, like a fair picture.  When misfortune comes
—a wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting." -
Aeschylus

December 31, 2007
"Hatred is blind, as well as love." - Oscar Wilde
 
December 30, 2007
"
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm." - Winston Churchill

December 29, 2007
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit." - Stendhal

December 28, 2007
"And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus

December 27, 2007
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." - Winston Churchill

December 26, 2007
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye." - Winston Churchill

December 25, 2007
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde

December 24, 2007
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -
Winston Churchill

December 23, 2007
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -  Oscar Wilde

December 22, 2007
"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders." - Winston Churchill

December 21, 2007
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" - Winston Churchill

December 20, 2007
"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them." - Buddha

December 19, 2007
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Winston Churchill

December 18, 2007
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde

December 17, 2007
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." - Oscar Wilde

December 16, 2007
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
 

December 15, 2007
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde

December 14, 2007
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." - Oscar Wilde

December 13, 2007
"
The basis of optimism is sheer terror." - Oscar Wilde
 

December 12, 2007
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -
Oscar Wilde

December 11, 2007
"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde

December 10, 2007
"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
" - Charles de Gaulle

December 9, 2007
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
" -
Winston Churchill

December 8, 2007
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
" -
Buddha

December 7, 2007
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." -
Aeschylus
 

December 6, 2007
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
" -
Winston Churchill

December 5, 2007
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
" -
Winston Churchill

December 3, 2007
"Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
" -
Andre Maurois

December 2, 2007
"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
" -
Madame de Stael

December 1, 2007
"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
" - Winston Churchill

November 30, 2007
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
" -
Aeschylus

November 29, 2007
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
" -
Aeschylus

November 28, 2007
"When a man's willing and eager the gods join in." -
Aeschylus

November 27, 2007
"No crime is so great as daring to excel.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 26, 2007
"We are not here to laugh.
" -
Charles de Gaulle

November 25, 2007
"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
" - Aeschylus

November 24, 2007
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 23, 2007
"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
" - Charles de Gaulle

November 22, 2007
"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
" -
Stendhal

November 21, 2007
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 20, 2007
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." -
Charles de Gaulle


November 19, 2007
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
" -
Aeschylus

November 18, 2007
"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
" -
Madame de Stael

November 17, 2007
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 16, 2007
"The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
" -
Stendhal

November 15, 2007
"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings--when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear." -
Buddha

November 14, 2007
"It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 13, 2007
"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
" - Aeschylus

November 12, 2007
"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
" -
Winston Churchill
 

November 11, 2007
"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
" -
Madame de Stael

November 10, 2007
"For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
" - Aeschylus

November 9, 2007
"The way is not in the sky.  The way is in the heart.
" -
Buddha

November 8, 2007
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them." -
Andre Maurois

November 7, 2007
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
" -
Winston Churchill

November 6, 2007
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
- Aeschylus

November 5, 2007
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." -
Charles de Gaulle

November 1-4, 2007
"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts." -
Madame de Stael

October 31, 2007
"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge." -
Stendhal

October 30, 2007
"Know not to revere human things too much.
" - Aeschylus

October 29, 2007
"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time, effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end." -
Madame de Stael

October 28, 2007
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it." -
Madame de Stael

October 27, 2007
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few." -
Stendhal

October 26, 2007
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity—romantic love and gunpowder." -
Andre Maurois

October 25, 2007
"God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
" - Stendhal

October 24, 2007
"This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom." -
Stendhal
 

October 23, 2007

"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve." -

Buddha

October 22, 2007
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." -
Buddha

October 21, 2007
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -
Buddha

October 20, 2007
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." -
Buddha
 
October 19, 2007
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
-
Buddha
 

October 18, 2007
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed." -
Buddha

October 17, 2007
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
" -
Buddha

October 16, 2007
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." - Buddha

October 15, 2007
"
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Buddha

October 14, 2007
"
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."-
Buddha

October 13, 2007
"
I never worry about action, but only about inaction." - Winston Churchill

October 12, 2007
"
If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

October 11, 2007
"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." -
Buddha

October 10, 2007
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -
Winston Churchill

October 9, 2007
"I am easily satisfied with the very best." - Winston Churchill
 

October 8, 2007
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
" -
Winston Churchill

October 7, 2007
"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
" -
Winston Churchill

October 6, 2007
 "
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place." - Winston Churchill

October 5, 2007
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
" -
Winston Churchill

October 4, 2007
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
"
- Winston Churchill
 

October 3, 2007
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
" -
Winston Churchill
 
October 2, 2007
"Danger
—if you meet it promptly and without flinching—you will reduce the danger by half.  Never run away from anything.  Never!" -
Winston Churchill

October 1, 2007
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
" - Winston Churchill

September 30, 2007

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
" -
Winston Churchill

September 29, 2007
"
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." -
Winston Churchill

September 28, 2007
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -
Winston Churchill

September 27, 2007
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
" -
Winston Churchill
 

September 26, 2007
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
" -
Winston Churchill

September 25, 2007
"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra

September 24, 2007
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -
Winston Churchill

September 23, 2007
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
" -
Winston Churchill

September 22, 2007
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
" -
Winston Churchill

September 21, 2007
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
" -
Winston Churchill

September 20, 2007
"
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill

September 19, 2007
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
" - Winston Churchill

September 18, 2007
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
" -
Winston Churchill
 
September 17, 2007
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
" -
Buddha
 

September 16, 2007
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
" -
Buddha
 

September 15, 2007
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
" -
Buddha

September 14, 2007
"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
" - 
Buddha

September 13, 2007
"Television is the first truly democratic culture
—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.  The most terrifying thing is what people do want." - British-born drama critic Clive Barnes
 

September 12, 2007
"It is better to travel well than to arrive.
" -
Buddha

September 11, 2007
"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.
" - Buddha

September 10, 2007
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
" -
Buddha

September 9, 2007
"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
" -
Buddha

September 8, 2007
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." -
Buddha

September 7, 2007
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
" -
Buddha
 

September 6, 2007
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?" -
Buddha
 

September 5, 2007
"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." -
Buddha

September 4, 2007
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." - Casey Stengel
 

September 3, 2007
"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
" -
Buddha

September 2, 2007
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye." -
Buddha

September 1, 2007
"He is able who thinks he is able.
" - Buddha

August 31, 2007
"Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.   Some suffer too much, others too little." -
Buddha

August 30, 2007
"Never make predictions, especially about the future." - Casey Stengel

August 29, 2007
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
" -
Buddha

August 28, 2007
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." -
Buddha

August 27, 2007
"
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely." -
Buddha
 

August 26, 2007
"
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair." -
Buddha

August 25, 2007
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." -
Buddha
 

August 24, 2007
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -
Buddha

August 23, 2007
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." -
Buddha

August 22, 2007
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." -
Buddha
 

August 21, 2007
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -
Buddha
 

August 20, 2007
"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." -
Buddha

August 19, 2007
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." -
Buddha