Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

Source Unknown

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions,there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil,there are rough and uneven roads,there are precipes;but there too is God and the angels,life is there, and the Kingdom,there too is light, and there the apostlesand heavenly cities,and treasures of grace.All things lie within that little space.

Makarios the Great

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter death has stopped the ears.

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad,

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Eric Ries

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James Barrie, The Little White B

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Jacob Boehme

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

Roel van Sleeuwen

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

George H. W. Bush

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde