Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Thor Heyerdahl

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb

The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.

Bernie Zilbergeld

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard Milhous Nixon

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Mark Twain

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Kristen Johnston

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

Carl Rowan, "New Yorker"

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

Aristotle

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Will Rogers

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy