life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend

A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses.

Source Unknown

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Sun Tzu

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.

Henry Chester

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Shelley Berman

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.

Leo Tolstoy

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Julius Erving

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.

Michael Symon

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

Randolph Silliman Bourne, Youth

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Haneef Fatmi

Do not shed tears when I have gone but smile instead because I have lived.

David Harkins, Remember Me, 1982

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain