March 22, 2000--
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing for he will never be disappointed."
--Alexander Pope
March 29, 2000--
"Vulgarity begins at home...and that's where it should stay."
--Oscar Wilde
April 5, 2000--
"Dream like you'll live forever, live like you'll die tomorrow."
--James Dean
April 12, 2000--
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
--Andy Rooney
April 19, 2000--
"The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming."
--Mike Mansfield, American statesman
April 26, 2000--
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
--Carl Sagan
May 3, 2000--
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
--Albert Einstein
May 10, 2000--
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
--Mark Twain
May 17, 2000--
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
May 24, 2000--
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
--Helen Keller
May 31, 2000--
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
--Ken Keys
June 1, 2000--
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
---Richard Bach
June 14, 2000--
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
June 21, 2000--
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
--Oscar Wilde
June 28, 2000--
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
--William Shakespeare
July 5, 2000--
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
--Confucius
July 12, 2000--
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
--Sophocles
July 19, 2000--
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
--Victor Borge
July 26, 2000--
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
August 2, 2000--
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
--Nelson Mandela
August 9, 2000--
"Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection."
--J.B. Yeats, from Letters to His Son, W.B. Yeats and Others
August 16, 2000--
"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words."
--Carl Reiner
August 23, 2000--
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
--Bernard Bailey
August 30, 2000--
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
September 6, 2000--
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
--Bill Cosby
September 13, 2000--
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
--Maya Angelou
September 20, 2000--
"No man can discover his own talents."
--Brendan Francis
September 27, 2000--
"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
--Walter Lippmann
October 4, 2000--
"We should take care not to make intellect our god, it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
--Albert Einstein
October 11, 2000--
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
--Naguib, Mahfouz
October 18, 2000--
"No man is an island, entire of himself, every man is a piece of the continent."
--John Donne, Devotions, 1624
October 25, 2000--
"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a posseesion glorious and eternal."
--Sallust
November 1, 2000--
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book--it makes a very poor doorstop."
--Alfred Hitchcock
November 8, 2000--
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
--Jerry Seinfeld
November 15, 2000--
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
--James Bryce
November 22, 2000--
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
November 29, 2000--
"Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want."
--Irving Kristol, American editor
December 6, 2000--
"We are rarely proud when we are alone."
--Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
December 13, 2000--
"The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them."
--Raymond Chandler
December 20, 2000--
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain
December 27, 2000--
"It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
--Oscar Wilde