Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
-- Eric Hoffer

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest.  We must learn to sail in high winds.
-- Hanmer Parsons Grant

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
-- Joel Arthur Barker

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
-- Albert Schweitzer

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I 
am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
-- Douglas Adams

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
-- Marge Piercy

Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.
-- Julia Louise Woodruff

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anais Nin

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.  Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
-- Carrie Snow

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
-- Mark Twain

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
-- Jacob M. Braude

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
-- Bob Wells

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. 
-- Sophia Loren

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-- Menclus

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. 
-- Peter De Vries

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
-- Hans Margolius

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly talking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
-- Marcel Proust

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart.  The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
-- Ada Teixeira

Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right.
-- Donna Hanover

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
-- Paul E. Gray

It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.
--Colette

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
--Chick Corea

We might find what we weren't looking for, which could be what we were looking for really.
-- Winnie the Pooh (Complements of Dana)

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
--Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)

Happiness?  It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness.  Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed....
-- Unknown

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Kahlil Gibran

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
-- Bill Mcglashen

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis

A mother understands what a child does not say.
-- Unknown

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
-- Omar Nelson Bradley

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to appreciate it.
--Franklin P. Jones

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
-- Jacob A. Riis

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
-- Liberace

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
-- Vance Packard

Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change; when I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
-- Pauline H. Peters

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
-- Anonymous

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
-- Chesterton

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased.
-- Katharine Hepburn

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
-- Jean Vanier

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
-- Ara Parasheghian

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
--Anonymous

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
-- Anne Frank

There is a big difference between thinking:  I'm in a relationship and something's wrong.  Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship, and thinking:
I'm in a relationship and we've got problems.  This is evidence that you are different than me.
-- Wayne Dyer

The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines.
-- Sydney J. Harris

Most people would rather die than think: many do.
-- Bertrand Russell

Study to be what you wish to seem.
-- John Bate

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
-- Ogden Nash

What was once thought can never be unthought.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
-- Joseph Joubert

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.
-- Dennis Miller

It's no longer a question of staying healthy--it's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-- Jackie Mason

The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.
-- Indian Proverb

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anais Nin

You are depriving some poor villiage of its idiot.
-- A Bumper Sticker

Why do we say something is out of "whack?"  What is "whack?"
-- ?

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.
-- Olin Miller

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
-- Dorothy Parker

The minute a man is convinced that he's interesting, he isn't.
-- Stephen Leacock

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
-- Kin Hubbard

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Henri L. Bergson

People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
-- ?

I call forth the child within myself to better understand the adult within.
-- Virginia Hamilton

Roses are planted where thorns grow.
-- William Black ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell")

I am watching, hearing with half my soul on sea and half my soul on land, and with both halves of my soul I look at the world.
-- Pablo Neruda ("Sexual Water")

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
-- Fred Astaire

What the child sees, the child does.  What the child does, the child is.
-- Irish Proverb

Sometimes it takes years for life to tap you on the shoulder and say "Suprise!" This is what you were born for.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

We only part to meet again.
-- John Gay

Don't be so humble.  You're not that great.
-- Golda Meir

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.
-- Ginger Rogers

Advertising is legalized lying.
-- H.G. Wells

Secrets erect a fence while confession builds a bridge.
-- Max Lucado

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-- T. S. Eliot

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"Anyone who walks into a church becomes a Christian."  "Does walking into a garage make you a car?"
-- Josh McDowell

Our God has a big eraser.
-- ?

It's never too late -in fiction or in life - to revise.
-- Nancy Thayer

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
-- Winston Churchill

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
--Voltaire

Every man's memory is his private literature.
-- Aldous Huxley

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.  What a man can be, he must be.
-- Abraham Maslow

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
-- Rod Serling

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
-- V. S. Naipaul

Your journal is a place where your point of view on the universe matters.
-- Mary Pipher

Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution.
-- Barbara Tuchman

Suit the action to the word, word to action.
-- William Shakespeare

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
-- Antisthenes

I never think when I write.  Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
-- Don Marquis

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
-- Isaac Asimov