"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
-Edward Everett Hale-

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
-Edward De Bono-

"If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you."
-Jesus of Nazareth-

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi-

"The only thing keeping you from enlightenment is thinking you're not."
-Teachings from my Intro to World Religions Class-

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
-Shirley MacLaine-

"It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity."
-Lyman Abbott-

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do."
-Dale Carnegie-

"He who seeks a friend without fault remains without."
-Old Turkish Proverb-

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'"
-Dan Rather-

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today
than he was yesterday."
-Abraham Lincoln-

"My own mind is my own church."
-Thomas Paine-

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
-Nadine Gordimer-

"Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding."
-Francois LaRochefoucauld-

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles."
-Sun Tzu-

"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible."
-Stonewall Jackson-

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."
-Susan L. Taylor-

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein-

"Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience."
-Katherine Tingley-

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone.
Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
-Edmund Spenser-

"Always make sure that what you think you see
is not just what you want to see."
-Unknown-

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion."
-Javan-

"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
-Stephen Hawking-

"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."
-Walter Mondale-

"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."
-Wanda Carter-

"If you open your heart, the love you will receive will open your mind."
-Unknown-

"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself."
-Gene Mauch-

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or
strange that self may prove to be."
-May Sarton-

"The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
-Albert Einstein-

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein-

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."
-Albert Einstein-

"Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for."
-Charles Mayers-

"Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary-men. . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd."
-Bertrand Russell-

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
-Isaac Singer-

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.-

"A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."
-Thomas Fuller-

"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
- Malcolm Muggeridge-

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
-Charles Kuralt-

"Fads are the kiss of death.
When the fad goes away, you go with it."
-Conway Twitty-

"I'm better about things than about people.
I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas."
-Peter Drucker-

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
-Eric Hoffer-

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
-George Soros-

"The reason we die is so that life will have meaning."
From the HBO original show
-Six Feet Under-

"At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
-Italian Proverb-

"When you are through changing, you are through."
-Bruce Barton-

"If you do not express your own original ideas,
if you do not listen to your own being,
you will have betrayed yourself.
Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."
-Rollo May-

"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's."
-Richard Whately-

"It is better to be hated for what one is, then to be loved for what one is not."
-Andrew Gide-

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
-Herman Melville-

"The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious."
-Albert Einstein-

"If thou art a man,
admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca-

"How different the new order would be
if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician."
-Henry Miller-

"Never miss an opportunity to make others happy,
even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it."
-Unknown-

"I wanted a perfect ending.
Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme,
and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."
-Gilda Radner-

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-Oscar Wilde-

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
-Balthasar Gracian-

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson Astronomer Samuel Johnson's Rasselas-

"Man is what he believes."
-Anton Chekhov-

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
-Kenji Miyazawa-

"We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another,
can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'"
-Dr. Leo Buscaglia-

"Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
-Frank Zappa-

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
-(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson-

"We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
-C. G. Jung-
'Psychological Reflections'

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
-Anne Frank-

"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-

"Work smarter, not harder. "
-Scrooge McDuck's Father from the Ducktales cartoon-

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein-

"If we are all stardust,
then aren't we all part of the universe trying to understand itself?"
-Ultimate Guide to the Awesome-
-Discovery Science Channel-

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is.  The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
-Erich Fromm-