The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Havelock Ellis

Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

The Talmud

If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

Henry David Thoreau

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Bob Uecker

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint, intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise; and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the

Friedrich A. Hayek

Truth is child of Time

John Ford

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Robert Collier

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar ElSadat

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Doug Coupland