Many Ways, Many Days

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

--Mary S. Calderone

Doing Nothing

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

--Mortimer Adler

New Knowledge, New Questions

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

--Susanne K. Langer

Fair Play

The fact that we're standing here tonight, the fact that we're able to hold this, it's just proof that no matter how far out your dreams are, it's possible. And, you know, fair play to those who dare to dream, and don't give up. This song was written from the perspective of hope, and hope, at the end of the day, connects us all, no matter how different we are.

--Marketa Irglova (Oscar acceptance speech, February 24, 2008)

Thought and Language

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

--George Orwell

Good At

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

--Bertrand Russell

Hunch

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

--Frank Capra

Sobering Thought

Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought.

--Walt Kelly

Dance Round

We dance round in circles and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

--Robert Frost

Substitute

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

--W. Somerset Maugham

Magnificent Hunch

In a sense, the person we marry is a stranger about whom we have a magnificent hunch.

--Anonymous minister

American Character

The United States is afflicted with new eras. Let us not think for a moment that the illusion, the aberration of the 1920s was unique. It is intimately a part of the American character.

--John Kenneth Galbraith

Hell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists--that is why they invented hell.

--Bertrand Russell

The Meaning

The meaning of events is the sum of all the consequences.

--Todd Gitlin

Chance

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

--Louis Pasteur

A Chair

A chair is only finished when someone sits in it.

--Hans J. Wegner

Change

That's the first sign that you're having an impact--you can't change the world and not have people come after you who don't want you to change the world.

--Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Enable It

As for the future, your task is not to foresee but to enable it.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Like a Pebble

Your life is like a pebble dropped into a pool of water, creating ripples endlessly. You do not know the end of a word, a thought, an action.

--White Eagle

Tragedy or Comedy

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

--Jean de La Bruyère