Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley

If you want a thing done, go - if not, send.
Benjamin Franklin

Large streams from little mountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David Everett

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Brendan Francis

paradigm - A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. One that serves as a pattern or model.

A social worker from a big city recently transferred to an area of hills and valleys in the Appalachians and was on her first tour of her new territory when she came upon the tiniest cabin she ever had seen.  Intrigued, she went up and knocked on the door. "Anybody home?" she asked.

"Yep," came a kid's voice through the door.

"If your father there?" asked the social worker.

"Nope. He left afore ma came in," said the kid.

"Well, is your mother there?" persisted the social worker.

"Ma? Nope, she left just afore I got here," said the kid.

"But," protested the social worker, "are you never together as a family?"

"Sure, but not here," said the kid through the door. "This is the outhouse."

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

I never believed there was any time under any circumstances when it was right for me to hurt anybody.
Peace Pilgrim

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
John Newton

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
P.J. O'Rourke

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Edmund Burke

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Gandhi

Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a little stroll in town one afternoon enjoying the sunshine. As they walked, they come across a sign:
"Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world."

"I am entering!" said Snow White.
After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, "Well, how'd ya do?"
"I won First Place !," said Snow White.

They continue walking and they see another sign:
"Contest for the strongest man in the world."
"I'm entering," says Superman.
After half an hour, he returns and they ask him, "How did you make out?"
"I won First Place too," answers Superman. "Did you ever have a doubt?"

They continue walking when they see a third
sign: "Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?"
Pinocchio quickly enters the contest.

After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.

"What happened?" they asked.

"Who on earth is Nancy Pelosi?" asked Pinocchio.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel Coward

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
William Stafford

        Recently I read that it would be pointless for a Senator to read the proposed government Health Care bill unless he was accompanied by at least 2 lawyers.   I can believe this.  Our Congressmen are expected to sign bills weighing close to 8 pounds of paper without even reading them.
        I think that there should be "size" requirements for any bill.  For instance, I recommend that all bills be on 8 1/2 x 11" paper with 1/2" top and bottom margins and 1" left and right margins.   Everything should be single spaced.  Everything should be in size 12 font.   Furthermore this must be on standard weight copy machine paper.  The entire bill including its front and back cover could not weigh more than 1 pound. It could not contain any amendments at the time of its introduction for passage. 
       We would be getting somewhere is all members of Congress as well as the President would simply refuse to vote for or sign any bill which did not comply with these standards.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
William Stafford

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
Brooks Atkinson

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide

A married couple in their early 60s was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table.

She said, 'For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.

The wife answered, 'Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband.'

The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.

The husband thought for a moment: 'Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again.

I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.'

The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.

So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!..the husband became 92 years old.