People change and forget to tell each other. 

~ Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. 

~ Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. 

 ~ Dalai Lama

I know people who only feel alive when they are comparing, complaining, judging.

~ Paulo Coelho

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 

~ Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. 

~ Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. 

~ Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. 

~ Lee Iacocca, automobile executive (b. 1924)

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. 

~ Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. 

~ Charles de Montesquieu, philosopher and writer (1689-1755)

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. 

~ Japanese proverb

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

~ James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

~ Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

~ Janette Oke

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. 

~ Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291) [Gulistan]

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. 

~ Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 

~ Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973)

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. 

~  President Snow