I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

~ Kurt Cobain

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.

~ Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887

Run your Life, Live your Life & Share your Life.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

~Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

~ Irving Babbitt

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

~ Jane Austen, novelist ( 1775-1817 )

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

~ Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

~ Ray Charles

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (1883 -1924) [while admiring fish in an aquarium]

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

Not only in doors, but in life itself: if it is written "pull", don't push.

~ Paulo Coelho

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

I was not delivered into this world in defeat-nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will not hear those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

~ Og Mandino

Love makes us weak & stronger at the same time, we can't just live without it.

~ Paulo Coelho

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (1883-1924)

We're here to put a dent in the universe.

~ Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur and Inventor

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

~ Dalai Lama

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

~John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

Only he who never plays never loses.

~ Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess Grandmaster

Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

~ Paulo Coelho