If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is to judgment that perception belongs, as science belongs to intellect. Intuition is the part of judgment, mathematics of intellect.

Blaise Pascal

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Danny Bonaduce

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Source Unknown

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

None but a mule denies his family.

Arabic Proverb

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

Origen

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

Jack Kerouac

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

Abraham Lincoln