Quotes

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye

Man is what he believes. -- Anton Chekhov

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. -- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. -- Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -- Bertrand Russell

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. -- Alexander Smith

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. -- Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. -- Andre Malraux

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical. -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998

If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do. -- Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. -- Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. -- Henri Matisse

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -- Dale Carnegie

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. -- Paul Brown

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. -- Henry Miller

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. -- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. -- Harriet Martineau

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. -- Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate

We don't get offered crises, they arrive. -- Elizabeth Janeway

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -- Thomas H. Huxley

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. -- Jawaharlal Nehru

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. -- Jennie Jerome Churchill

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -- Chuck Norris

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. -- Thomas Jefferson

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. -- Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. -- George Melton

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. -- Mark Twain, 'Notebook,' 1935

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. -- Pablo Picasso

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. -- Bob Dylan

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. -- Joseph F. Newton

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. -- Andre Gide

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. -- Cicero

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. -- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -- John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963