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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell



The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. ~Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History



We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps



Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. ~Robert Heinlein



Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock



The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth



When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern



A kiss is the upper persuasion for a lower invasion. ~Author Unknown



Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali



And what Thou art may never be destroyed. ~Emily Bronte



Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown



Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid



So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson



Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris



Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~Alfred E. Neuman



When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb