There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have. ----Mark Twain

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.----Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.---- Emily Zola J 'accuse

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.---- Mahatma Gandhi

The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself---- Hindu Proverb

Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.---- Robert Herrman - scientist

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.---- Galileo

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great or great evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.---- La Rocherfoucauld

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated---- Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.---- James Joyce

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love---- Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences---- Aldous Huxley

Consciously or unconciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.---- Mahatma Gandhi

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had a life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?---- Henry James 1843-1916

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.---- William Blake

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.---- Peter Marshall

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.---- Franklin D Roosevelt

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.----Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.---- Jules W Ledere

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.---- John Locke

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.---- Art Linkletter

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.---- Bertrand Russell

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.---- Truman Capote

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.---- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.---- Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincable but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.---- Mahatma Gandhi

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.---- Sir Cecil Beaton

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.---- Carl G Jung

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.---- Satya Sai Baba

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.---- Orison Swett Marden

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.---- Hobart Brown