I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

If you have time don't wait for time

Benjamin Franklin

Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.

Ambrose Bierce

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

Louis Claude de St. Martin

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? ? That's because they know an important truth - Life was meant to be lived. ? Puddles were meant to be experienced.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Erma Bombeck

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Mitch Albom

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Elizabeth Edwards