"Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait - and love one another."
--George Harrison

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--Plato

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."
--Richard Moss

When you dance you can't think. You've got to feel - feel it all.
-- Michael Jackson

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
--Stephen Wright

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
-- Vince Lombardi

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
--Joan Borysenko

No one means all he says, yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
-- Patrick Henry

"I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our friend."
--(excerpt from )Deep Thoughts) by Jack Handey, "Saturday Night Live")

"I have faith that the truth is the right thing,"
-- Paula Poundstone

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"We anticipate a global world-market with place for perhaps five computers."
--Tom Watson, IBM 1949

"You express your soul by going through the fear."
--Earthlyn Marselean Manuel

"The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary."
--May B. Smith

"Nothing is less like friendship than a love affair. Lovers are normally face to face absorbed in each other; friends are side by side absorbed in some common interest. Above all eros while it lasts, is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the number necessary for friendship, is not even the best."
--C.S. Lewis

"There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble."
--Howard Thurman

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
-- Alfred Hitchcock


"Not too many excellent people these days. If you are going to have business, have an excellent business....., and excellent life."

"When you get people's approval by letting them control you, there's never an end to it.  If you gain a friend by caving in to all their desires, that's the same way you have to keep 'em the rest of your life."
--Joyce Meyer

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
--Albert Schweitzer

"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
--Frank Lloyd Wright

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
--Margot Fonteyn

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
--Indira Gandhi

"There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Nobody, but nobody, can make it out here alone."
--Maya Angelou

"Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another."
--May Sarton

"Forever is composed of nows."
--Emily Dickinson

"What you keep to yourself you lose; what you give away, you keep forever."
--Axel Munthe

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
--Virginia Woolf

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
--Oscar Wilde

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
--Erma Bombeck

"The most important things in life aren't things."
--Art Buchwald


"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to."

"Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique."
--Annie Gottlier

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
--Mary Frances Berry

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
--Confucius

The Wolf Credo:

"Respect the elders
Teach the young
Cooperate with the pack
Play when you can
Hunt when you must
Rest in between
Share your affections
Voice your feelings
Leave your mark"
--Del Goetz

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is."
--Proverbs 23:7

"The time is always right to do what is right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
--Robert Byrne

"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."
--Unknown
And the child won't wait as a child. -- Shaiyel Seltzer

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."
--James Allen

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Sir Francis Bacon

"Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship."
--Woodrow Wilson

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

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
--Theodore Roethke

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
--Saul Bellow

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
--Oscar Wilde

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
--Rita Mae Brown

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso

"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
--Elizabeth Bowen

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
--Samuel Johnson

"All miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."
--Pascal

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
--Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The aim of life is to live and to live is to be aware ... joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
--Henry Miller

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-- Carl Jung

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-- Marie Curie

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
-- John J. Plomp

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
-- Tracy Chapman, "Unsung Psalms"

Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery ( The Little Prince The Fox)

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
-- Les Brown

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
-- Michael Caine

"I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or has a silly heart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good."
--from movie, "Uncle Buck," John Candy's character

"I am the genius of me."
--Pat Cooper

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."
-- Moliere

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
-- Dolly Parton

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
-- Donald Laird

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values."
-- The Dalai Lama

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-- Judy Garland

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David Comins

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
-- Bob Brown

"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave." "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."
-- Billie Holiday

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
-- Audre Lorde

"The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become."
-- Charles Dubois

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John W. Gardner

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Where there is love there is life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made.
-- Groucho Marx

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
-- Booker T. Washington

And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic.
-- Narrator in "History of the World: Part I"

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
-- La Rochefoucauld

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
-- The Ringo Kid (John Wayne in "Stagecoach")

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
-- Tennessee Williams

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
-- Franklin Jones

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-- Douglas Adams

The journey is the reward.
-- Taoist saying

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson

It may help to think of language as a great field of word plants. Whenever most people focus their attention on one subject, it's like a great dose of fertilizer and rain on that portion of the field. Existing words grow and flower into new meanings. Nouns sprout verbs.
-- Allan Metcalf

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
-- Booker T. Washington

This would be a great world to dance in if you didn't have to pay the fiddler.
-- Will Rogers

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it -- whole-heartedly -- and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
-- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
-- Alan Saporta

And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth -- the critic.
-- Narrator in "History of the World: Part I"

Well, no wonder you look like him. But I still insist there is a resemblance.
-- Capt. Spaulding (Groucho Marx) in "Animal Crackers"

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
-- Sylvia Robinson

With calm eyes gauge your fellow men; with a calm heart deal with all matters; with a calm mind find the reason in things.
-- Hong Yingming

"All change is not growth, all movement is not forward."
-- Ellen Glasgow

Why should we pay taxes when we have no part in the honors, the commands, the state craft for which you contend?
-- Hortensia, c. First Century B.C.

The Lord God has special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
-- Otto von Bismarck

Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path," for the Spirit walks on all paths.
-- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

"You can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing."
-- Paul Hawken

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
-- Golda Meir

"And I will war, at least in words (and should my chance so happen -- deeds) with all who war with Thought, -- and of Thought's foes by far most rude, Tyrants and sycophants have been and are. I know not who may conquer: if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar to this my plain, sworn, downright detestation - O every despotism in every nation."
-Byron, (Don Juan, Canto 9 verse 24)