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Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain



Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back. ~Wendell Phillips, Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852



Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard



Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt



Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. ~Author Unknown



Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne



Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings



After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958



Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Denis Diderot



I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ~Noel Coward



Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. ~Gene Perret



The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~Edward Koch



The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, "The Mission," Chapter 8



The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch



The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. ~Mme. de Stael



If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener



Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ~Joseph Conrad



What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie