An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." 

~ Jonathan Swift, satirist (30 Nov 1667-1745) 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

~ Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (27 Nov 1942-1970) 

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another. 

~ Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000) 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

~ Mark Twain

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.

~ Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961) 

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. 
~ Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19 Nov 1909-2005) 

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like. 

~ Soichiro Honda, industrialist (17 Nov 1906-1991) 

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. 

~ Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013) 

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. 

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (11 Nov 1922-2007) 

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. 

~ Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774) 

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. 

~ Carl Sagan, astronomer and author (9 Nov 1934-1996) 

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

~ Mark Twain

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. 

~ Confucius.

Do you wish the world were happy? 

Then remember day by day,

Just to scatter seeds of kindness

As you pass along the way. 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919) 

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. 

~ Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935) 

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

~ General George Patton.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. 

~ Rose Bird, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court (2 Nov 1936-1999) 

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

~ Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker.