“One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.”

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act III
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.”

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

Nicholas Butler
(1862 - 1947)

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard Feynman
US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)

“Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.”

Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
founder of Wikipedia

“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”

Dick Gregory
US comedian (1932 - )

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

Goldie Hawn
US actress & comedienne (1945 - )

“For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.”

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”

Dorothy Sarnoff

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

George Bernard Shaw, “The Devil’s Disciple” (1901), act II
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

“Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left.”

David M. Ogilvy

“Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.”

Dianne Hales

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

Dr. Seuss
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

“Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.”

Jeremy Bentham
English jurist, philosopher, & legal reformer (1748 - 1832)

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”

Nikita Khrushchev
Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971)

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)