Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

John H. Holcomb

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Lewis Mumford

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Car

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mel Brooks

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Harry Lorayne