Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dorothy Dix

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

William Hazlitt

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley

everything changes, nothing perishesomnia mutantur, nihil interit

Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.165

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge

The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Psalms 24:1

Bible

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Michael J. Fox

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

Robert Rodriguez

If the author is so interested in Science, why doesn't she take a course in it?

Peg Bracken

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop