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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
– Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
– Peter McWilliams
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it.
– Gordana Biernat
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
– Persian Proverb
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
– Plato
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
– Herb Caen
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
– Leonard Nimoy
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
– Franklin P. Adams
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
– Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
I finally figured out that the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
– Willa Cather
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
– Cesare Lombroso
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
– Marian Anderson
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
– Mother Teresa
The more one judges, the less one loves.
– Honore' de Balzac
Nothing is stronger than habit.
– Ovid
Without music life would be a mistake.
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
– Albert Einstein
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
– Margaret Thatcher
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.
– Helen Keller
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
– Elbert Hubbard
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
– Henry James
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.
– Marilyn Monroe
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
– Dorothy Parker
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
– William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
