"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Clifton Fadiman

"Colors are the smiles of nature."
Leigh Hunt (English Writer, 1784-1859)

"Life is a fractal in Hilbert space"
Rudy Rucker

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959

"All our souls are written in our eyes."
Anonymous

"I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends."
James Boswell

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Voltaire (Fran'ois Marie Arouet)

"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