"Today we have made history... Now let us make progress."
-- Nancy Pelosi

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"... Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charles M. Schulz

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation".
-- Robert Kennedy

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error."
-- Janet Coleman

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
-- Fortune Cookie

"When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event."
-- Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"Doh!"
-- Homer Simpson

"In the same way, we become masters of jealousy, masters of sadness, masters of self-rejection. All of our drama and suffering is by practice. We make an agreement with ourselves and we practice that agreement until it becomes a whole mastery. The way we think, the way we feel and the way we act become so routine that we no longer need to put our attention on what we are doing. It is just by action-reaction that we become a certain way."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us".
-- Quentin Crisp

"Gratitude encourages intuition and abundance. This week and every day be thankful for who and what is in your life — instead of complaining about what you don’t have. Appreciate all the abundance and goodness that’s around you, whether big or small. Be thankful for your health, children, sunny days, your garden, family, best friends, or even the person who let you jump ahead in line at the bank. The more joy you begin to notice and appreciate, the easier it is for your intuition to lead you to even more happiness and prosperity."
-- John Holland

"A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ".
-- John Steinbeck

"Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience someone thinks up a new course."
-- Mary H. Waldrip

"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me".
-- H. Rider Haggard

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
-- Heinrich Heine

"Life is a zoo in a jungle".
-- Peter De Vries

"Time is the wisest counselor."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Always a mother."
-- Jane Wyatt, 1910-2006, on her celebrated roles as a mother on Star Trek, and Father Knows Best.


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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances".
-- Thomas Jefferson

"A joke's a very serious thing".
-- Charles Churchill