Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida, Ac

I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.

Margaret Halsey

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

C. W. Ceran

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Louise Brown

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Ian Hay

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Pir Vilayat Khan

Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?-When I was your age I had two jobs.-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.-You're not eating that for dinner.-Did you do your homework?-Stop mumbling and speak up.-Now what did you do?-Because I said so.-No.

Charles Benoit

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Isabel Allende