"When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.""
Alistair Cooke

"If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy."
Hawkeye, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda

"I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little."
Sheila Kaye-Smith

"Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around."
Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom" (song)

"Luck never gives; it only lends."
Swedish Proverb

"That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it's not all like that. A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad. That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another. But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help. When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."
From the movie Old Yeller

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
Rabbi Julins Gordon

Picture by: Chris Rittswood

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
Henry Ward Beecher

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
Robert Frost

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

"Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it."
Alain, Histoire de mes pensees

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mohandas K. Gandhi

"For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

"The fans know their football, you can't kid them."
Richard Gough

"The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh."
Robert Ludlum

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
Art Linkletter

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
Laurence J. Peter

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda

"Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun."
Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau

"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

"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?"
Calvin and Hobbes

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home."
Author Unknown

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elisabeth Foley

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
Leo Burnett

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
Palmer Sondreal