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I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “hi”. They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth one word.–Augusten Burroughs Author of Running With Scissors

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Communication is not about what we say or do, it’s about how men perceive it. (no author)

If you ask a child if he can draw an elephant, he’ll say yes, yes. If you ask an adult, he’ll think of it twice. (no author)

- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” 

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

- Galileo Galilei

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

- definition of “happiness” by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”    

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”  

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” 

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.”

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” 

- Andrew Marvell (1621-167

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” 

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”  

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” 

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”

- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”  

- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”   

- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”  

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

- Vince Lombardi

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” 

- Umberto Eco

“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”

- Jimmy Durante

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

- Frank Zappa

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Auric Goldfinger, in “Goldfinger” by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” 

- Goethe (1749-1832)

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”  

- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

- Will Durant

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” 

- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”

- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”  

- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”

- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

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Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays où il existe 258 variétés de fromage? -Charles de Gaulle-

 

“God’s work done in God’s way never lacks God’s supply” -Hudson Taylor-

Life is not about the amount of breaths you take, it is about the moments that take your breath away”” If music be the food of Love, play on” -William Shakespeare-“Write everyday.
Line by line, page by page, hour by hour.
Do this despite fear.
For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage. Courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure.
As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty,
study thoughtfully, but write boldly.
Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.”
-Robert MckeeYou feel like running, but life is on a stroll -Blue like Jazz-

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)