"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
---- Plato
"...energy is what people....pick up on; and that's what's pulled me through."
---- Junior Brown
"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."
---- Ken Kesey
"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and that we shall always see truth in fragments and from different angles of vision."
---- Ghandi
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it (stupidity) has a longer shelf life."
---- Frank Zappa
"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch".
---- William Shakespeare
"In charity, there is no excess."
---- Sir Francis Bacon
"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation; indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
---- Sir Winston Churchill
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
----- Jack Kerouac
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
---- George Burns
"Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart."
---- Jesus (King James Version)
""If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christ-like potential of others."
---- Anthony Burgess
"If you ask, 'what is the single most important key to longevity?', I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."
---- George Burns
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
---- Sir Francis Bacon
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
---- Willie Nelson
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?"
---- Rabbi Hillel (3rd C. B.C.)
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."
---- George Harrison
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less; but, because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
---- Rabbi Julius Gordon
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
---- Matthew Arnold
"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."
---- Anthony Burgess
"....once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory."
---- Douglas MacArthur, April 19, 1951
"The best form of defense is attack."
---- Karl von Clausewitz
"Soldiers generally win battles; Generals get the credit for them."
---- Napoleon Bonaparte
"There's nothing worse than being an aging young person."
---- Richard Pryor
"...I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."
---- Johnny Depp
"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling"
---- Wavy Gravy
"You only lie when you're afraid."
---- John Gotti
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
---- Timothy Leary
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
---- E.A. Poe
"...There is no beauty without strangeness."
---- Karl Lagerfeld
"A novelist should not be too intelligent....although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
---- Anthony Burgess
"Soldiers generally win battles; Generals get the credit for them."
---- Napoleon Bonaparte
"You see things and you say, 'Why?'; But, I dream things that never were and I say, 'Why not?'"
---- G.B. Shaw
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."
---- G.B. Shaw
"Let them hate, so long as they fear."
---- Lucius Accius
