Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

I never want to arrive. I love the ride.

Coco J. Ginger

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett

Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.(also widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

Hyman Rickover, The World of the

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Lawrence Welk

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death always comes too early or too late.

English Proverb

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

Chet Raymo

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger