"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion." - Thomas Jefferson

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"Always try to arrange the events of your life in chronological order; it's less confusing that way."

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." - H.L. Mencken

"On one occasion a student burst into his office. 'Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this 'F' you've given me.' To which Stigler replied, 'I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award.'"

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde

"If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." - P.G. Wodehouse

"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met." - Abraham Lincoln

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid thinking." - Thomas Edison

"Don't worry about temptation-as you grow older, it starts avoiding you." - Old Farmer's Almanac

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how." - Victor Frankl

"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." - Charlie Brown, Peanuts [Charles Schulz]

"A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about." - Glen Wheeler

"Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love." - Antiphanes

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." - Mark Overby

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." - English Proverb

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Ray Croft

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Frank Crane

"Only love let's us see normal things in an extraordinary way." - Alejandro de Solminihac

"Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." - Mark Twain

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done whether you like it or not." - Thomas Huxley

"My center gives way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent; I am attacking." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne, 1623, from "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions"

"War doesn't decide who's right, but who's left." - This one is mine. I wonder if it is arrogant of me to include my own quote with the thoughts of these great thinkers? (Search4Meaning)

"The family tree is worth bragging about only if it has consistantly produced good timber, and not just nuts." - Glen Wheeler

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." - Ambrose Bierce

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." - Rod Serling

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving the peace." - George Washington

"If you go into battle, it's better to win the first time." - General George S. Patton

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Winston Churchill

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." - Mark Twain

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work - I want to achieve it by not dying." - Woody Allen

"If you want your child to respect your values during his teen years, then you must be worthy of his respect during his younger days." - James Dobson

"You built no great cathedrals that centuries applaud, But with a grace exquisite your life cathedraled God." - Thomas Fessenden

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"If you have tried to do something but couldn't, you are far better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded." - John T. Ragland, Jr.

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - John Andrew Holmes

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

"My karma ran over your dogma."

"Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we say." - Wilferd A. Peterson

"A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - St. Basil