Quotes

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. -- Malcolm Forbes

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Lord Morley

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. -- Bob Dylan

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. -- Meister Eckhart

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. -- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. -- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. -- Marilyn Ferguson

Deeds, not words shall speak me. -- John Fletcher

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

Knowledge is power. -- Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. -- William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut. -- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -- Carl Jung

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. -- William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. -- John Henry Cardinal Newman

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. -- Sam Donaldson

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. -- Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -- Thomas Merton, 'No Man Is an Island'

Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. -- Jean Houston

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. -- Dorothee Solle

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. -- Elbert Hubbard

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. -- Chinese Proverb

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Sir Francis Bacon

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. -- Amy Vanderbilt

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -- Norman Cousins

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. -- Annie Lennox

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. -- Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

Every noble work is at first impossible. - Carlyle

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. - James A. Garfield

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. - Voltaire

By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes