Below is a collection of my past "Quotes of the week":

"Change is expensive"
No matter what you want in life, you must give up something to get it.
It's a universal law and it works like this. The greater the value of what
you want the greater the sacrifice you will have to make.
.....
The truth is, that it is hard and continuous dedication that brings
lasting results. There are no short cuts, easy streets or detours.
.....
Expect to pay a price if you want to make your life better. But, more
importantly, also expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
- Unknown -

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good
outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour
something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
- Brooks Atkinson -

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were
good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed
intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson -

There is no joy so great as that of reporting
that a good play has come to town.
- Brooks Atkinson -

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely
in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting ... "holy cow! . what a ride!"
- Mavis Leyrer, age 83 -

-Billy Joel on learning the Piano:
"Sometimes the going gets tough -- it can be disheartening, discouraging,
you can get bored with the routine. But once you make the breakthrough and
learn enough so that you can entertain yourself and have fun doing it,
you've joined the ranks of the wizards and the sorcerers and the alchemists.
And you have the power."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute
conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill

"I'm a kid who dreamed the dreams and made them come true."
-Hugh Hefner, age75

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people."
-Oscar Wilde

``They may find somebody who can do this job better than me
they will never find anybody that had any more fun doing it than I had,''
``I have had a great time.''
--President Clinton in his final days in office

(Going to war over religion)
"You're basically killing each other to see
who's got the better imaginary friend."
-Yasir Arrafat (PLO leader)

"Explore everything with wonder,
have warm milk and cookies and take a nap."
- Robert Fulghum's popular book:
"All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten.."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered
something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.
It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle -

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love
than a success at something I hate."
- George Burns -

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot -

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana -

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me,
but I think she enjoyed it."
- Mark Twain -

"There are children playing in the street who could solve
some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes
of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda -

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand
as playing a poor hand well."
- H. T. Leslie -."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert Kennedy -...

"The quality of life is determined by its activities"
- Aristotle -

"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime;
for one swallow does not a summer make."
- Aristotle -

"Age does not bring wisdom ... but it does give perspective ...
and the saddest perspective of all is to see far, far
behind you,the temptations you've passed up."
- Robert A. Heinlein, from "Stranger in a Strange Land" -

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out
and you want to catch it and bring it back.
You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
~ Vice President Dan Quayle

"Work like you don't need money,
love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like no one's watching."
~Author unknown

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary
before you can meet again. And meeting again,after moments
or lifetimes is certain for thoes who are friends."
~ Richard Bach, Illusions

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
~ Albert Einstein

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
~ G. K. Chesterton

"Men willingly believe what they wish."
~Julius Caesar

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble."
~Augustus Caesar

"Life is a series of problems.
Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
Do we want to teach our children to solve them?
~unknown

"People are entitled to joy in their work
and a sense of ownership."
~unknown

"Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy.
If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy;
if He is as little as that, He is beneath it."
~Mark Twain

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god
because if there be one, he must more approve of the
homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
~Thomas Jefferson

"I know Everything, I just haven't figured it all out yet"
~James Peltzer

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not."
~Emerson

"A friend is someone who sees through you
and still enjoys the view."
~Wilma Askinas