An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honore de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings
For several moments both of us were the unconscious and cosmic toys of our own deception. ~"The Mission," Chapter 4
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ~Steve Polyak
Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year. ~Author Unknown
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ~John Comenius, 17th century philosopher Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~Abraham Lincoln
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard
To use five crayons. Maybe, not.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ~William Howard Taft
A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. ~James Rarey
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. ~Robert C. Pollock
Some people never have anything except ideals. ~E.W. Howe
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system. ~P.J. O'Rourke
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily