** Quote of the Day **

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-Walter Anderson

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
-Alexandre Dumas

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
-Speakers Library

You know that place between sleep and awake? Where you still remember dreaming? That's where I will always think of you.
-Tinkerbell

I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
-Agnes DeMille

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
-Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
-Buddha.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
-Jonas Salk

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
-Robertson Davies

"a witty saying proves nothing"
-Voltaire

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
-Arthur Ashe

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
-Sir William Haley

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
-Wayne Dyer

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
-Lord Chesterfield

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
-Richard Bach

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-e.e. cummings

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
-Miguel De Cervantes

Time changes nothing. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things the way they are.
-House M.D.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
-George MacDonald

You can scratch my chair, you can insult my mother, you can beat up my dog, and you can play with my rubber mousie... but you don't eat my food and you don't sleep in my bed.
-Garfield the Cat

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
-Robert Collier

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important —like a league game or something.
-Dick Butkus

We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary. Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us as much as we will allow...
-Eileen Elias Freeman

"....When you eat your sweets, be sure you try, to limit your servings or youll DIIIEEEEE....."

-Marilyn Manson on Clone High

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-Albert Schweitzer

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
-William Least Heat Moon

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...
-Brandon Lee

It's not who I am underneath, but what I DO that defines me.
-Batman

And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make.
-The Beatles

Never be afraid to be who you are. The one that truly loves will love you for exactly that reason.
-William Thackery

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
-Author Unknown

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
-Mignon McLaughlin