Behold the turtle; He only makes progress
when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant

Humor is something that thrives between
man's aspirations and his limitations. There
is more logic in humor than in anything else.
Because, you see humor is truth.
Victor Borge

...When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough
in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it.
Picture yourself vividly as winning and
that alone will contribute immeasureably to success.
Great living starts with a picture, held in your
imagination of what you would like to do or be.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, protestant minister

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares
about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should
have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

Choosing what you want to do, and when you want
to do it, is an act of creation.
Peter McWilliams

Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
J. Willard Marriott

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
Alexander Haig (some of his Haigspeak)

If someone says "can't", that shows you what to do.
John Cage

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim 1907-1981

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of
the moment.
McDermott

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all
are symnbols of human failure.
Lyndon Johnson

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for
your life, but doing the best each moment puts
you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Guilt is never a rational thing, it distorts all faculties
of the human mind, it leaves a man no longer in the
free use of his reason, it puts him in confusion.
anonymous

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in
our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing, author of Spiritual Freedom

Deep within a man dwells those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him, that he
never dreamed of possessing; forces that
would revolutionize his life if aroused into action.
Orison Sweet Marden

Change is the law of life. And those
who look only to the past or present are certain to miss
the future
Unknown

The essential conditions of everything you do must be
choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger

Deep within a man dwells those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him, that he
never dreamed of possessing; forces that
would revolutionize his life if aroused into action.
Orison Sweet Marden

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things
and people outside us let us down is because we
believe those things and people shouldn't. Well,
sorry, that's not life here on earth
Peter McWilliams