Albert Schweitzer

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
- Albert Einstein

Leo Buscaglia

"Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God."
- Leo Buscaglia

P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Lao Tzu

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
- Lao Tzu

Woody Allen

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- Woody Allen

E. B. White

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E. B. White

Sandra Carey

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
- Sandra Carey

George Horace Lorimer

"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

Henri Bergson

"To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly."
- Henri Bergson

Mahatma Gandhi

"We must become the change we want to see."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Socrates

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
- Socrates

Barry Goldwater

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
- Barry Goldwater

Albert Camus

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
- Albert Camus

George Bernard Shaw

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Man and Superman"

Anne Frank

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank

Karl Marx

"There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes."

~ Karl Marx (1818-1883

Aristotle

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
- Aristotle

Confucius

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from them.

- Milton Friedman

Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman

Frank Knox

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
- Frank Knox

Adlai Stevenson

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
- Adlai Stevenson

John Burroughs

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
- John Burroughs

Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- Jane Austen

Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung

Lord Chesterfield

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- Lord Chesterfield

Jack Handey

"I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away."
- Jack Handey

Oscar Wilde

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

...being made merely in the image of God, but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near-sighted person.
- Mark Twain