Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Jean de La Fontaine

O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like these Thou too shalt rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

Guy Debord

There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.

Arthur Ashe

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Bob Dylan

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D Eisenhower

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Joe E. Lewis

The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Eric Hoffer

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Jesse Jackson