Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

Justice is achieved not in striving for justice, but with love.

Leo Tolstoy

God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Maynard James Keenan

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her belly button made an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Michael Bloomberg

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

W. H. Auden

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche