Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. ~Author Unknown If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest…

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against…

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your…

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of…

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook 98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they…

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's…

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren Every sport pretends to a literature,…

Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? ~Kin Hubbard There are always three speeches, for every one you…

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say…

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul. ~Geoffrey Fisher The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to…

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich von Schiller You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like…

Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are…

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality. ~Eli Khamarov, "Lives of the Cognoscenti" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of…

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so…

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini To cease smoking is the easiest thing…

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.…

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there…

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find…

Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown There are really only three things…

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li A sister is a little…

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou He who sings frightens away his ills. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote…

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 To poke a wood fire is more solid…

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn Silence is the true friend that…

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ~Bo Derek When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a…

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988 The tragedy of…

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline… ~Abraham J. Heschel…

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct,"…

Discipline is remembering what you want. ~David Campbell Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel,…

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton…

Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown…

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954 I think science has enjoyed an…

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~Madame…

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ~William Shakespeare For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. ~Eleanor Everet Safety doesn't happen by accident.…