Truthiness - truth that wouldn't stand to be held back by facts. -- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

-- Russell W. Davenport

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. -- Wilma Askinas

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt           

I just want to thank those people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling, and the people out there who stand up for peace and justice and against intolerance.

-- Paul Haggis, Writer and Director of Crash      

The best love affairs are those we never had. -- Norman Lindsay

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. -- Woodrow Wyatt

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. -- Joey Adams

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -- Samuel Adams

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. -- Spike Milligan

There are few things in this world more reassuring than an unhappy lottery winner. -- Tony Parsons

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about. -- Jack Nicholson

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. -- Confucius

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I though of myself as the greatest actor in the world. -- Charlie Chaplin

The distance isn't important it is only the first step that is difficult. -- Marquise Du Deffand

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still. -- Chinese Proverb

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

-- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)      

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero. -- Duke of Wellington

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

-- Thomas Jefferson      

Christmas miracles only happen in the lies adults tell to children. – Boondocks Narrator, Episode 7 Season 1

American History X: Bob Sweeney: There was a moment... when I used to blame everything and everyone... for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions. Derek Vinyard: Like what? Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

-- Humphrey Bogart as "Rick Blaine" in Casablanca           

Wait till it is night before saying it was a fine day. -- French proverb

When walking through the "valley of shadows", remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. -- Austin O'Malley

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. -- William Hazlitt

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. -- Knute Rockne

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -- Helen Keller

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. -- Henri Frederic Amiel

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -- Lao Tzu

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. -- John Wayne

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself. -- Dana Hill

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people. -- J.B. Priestly

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. -- Bob Dylan

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts. -- Penelope Sweet

"I have come here not to find answers", he'd written in his notebook that first year, "but to find away to live in a world without any." -- Sue Monk Kidd

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching. Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. -- Christopher Reeve

Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on. I learned a long time ago life isn’t fair... you just have to forge ahead. I've been grieving privately the past week and a half. My inclination would be, frankly, to remain private for a good long while. But I came here today in support of John Kerry because this is so important. -- Dana Reeve

Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart. -- Bella Pollen

Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man? -- Neil Young

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. -- John Wayne

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. -- Earl Wilson

"I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq," retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste said in remarks prepared for a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. 9/25/06

America loves to eat. According to a new state-by-state report, the most obese state is Mississippi, with Alabama second, West Virginia third, Louisiana fourth, Kentucky fifth. John McLaughlin asks his panel why the South is disproportionately represented? Protein is expensive. The heavy carbo foods are a lot cheaper. And if you don't have money, you can't go out and buy lean steaks and lean chicken. -- Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group

"What happened at Abu Ghraib was disgraceful. What happened at Haditha, if true, is a war crime. But Gitmo is not a war crime." -– Pat Buchanan

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreau

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. -- Warren Farrell

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. -- Archibald Cox

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -- Dale Carnegie

I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him - and then he must be executed. -- Rev. Jerry Falwell

Take it about five notches back. It was only flirting. I don’t f*ck on television. – Coral, The Real World Reunion Show 2006

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joubert

Body counts are not the most accurate measure of success. – CNN Reporter during Anderson Cooper 360 9/5/06

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. -- Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week. -- Charles Darwin

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. -- Rod Serling

When those who dissent are told time and time again -- as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus -- that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American... When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"... look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you. -- Keith Olbermann, Countdown With Keith Olbermann - September 11, 2006, A special comment on 9/11

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- William Morrow

Whoever gossips to your will gossip about you. – Spanish Proverb

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? -- Marcel Marceau

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. -- Thomas Carlyle

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. -- Robert Neville

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -- Charles Schultz

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money , either. -- Robert Graves

Only the mediocre are always at their best. -- Jean Giraudoux

"The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come." -- Point Man by Steve Farrar

"The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others." -- Understanding People by Larry Crabb

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is tha tthey have a common enemy. -- Sam Levenson

At American weddings, the quality of the food is inversely proportional to the social position of the bride and groom. -- Calvin Trillin

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. -- Danny McGoorty

Only the shallow know themselves. -- Oscar Wilde

"We scramble after the security of personal status and think that we will be invincible when we have climbed the corporate ladder and demanded human respect - only to discover our perpetual vulnerability." -- Keeping the Sabbath Wholly by Marva J. Dawn

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. -- Gloria Steinem

Absence makes the heart to yonder. -- RB

I have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. -- Jimmy Hoffa

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” -- Vincent van Gogh

“Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.” -- ?

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? -- Jules Feiffer

One father is more than a hundres schoolmasters. -- George Herbert

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok

"...milliseconds influence centuries." -- What If... by Robert Cowley

"We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own." -- Prey by Michael Crichton

All these soldiers of ours have their eyes on you, and if they see that you are downhearted they will all become cowards, while if you are yourselves clearly prepared to meet the enemy and if you call on the rest to do their part, you can be sure that they will follow you and try to be like you. -- The Persian Expedition by Xenophon

"Seemingly senseless pain and trauma engulfs much of life. If you seek to follow Him, you must be content to trust His character rather than your ability to understand. The difference between a knife in the hand of an assassin and a knife in the hand of a surgeon is intent: both inflict severe pain. You must decide whether God is an assassin or a surgeon. But remember, your choice does not change God, only your opinion." -- Thoughts From the Diary Of A Desperate Man by Walter A. Henrichsen

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- James Buckham

Children have very little concept of time.  Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all. -- Mary Lawson

Good things happen when you do good. -- Wesley Autrey, A Good Samaritan who, traveling with his two daughters on Jan. 2, 2007, jumped from the subway station to save a stranger who suffered a heart attack and fell onto the train tracks, a few feet below platform level. Mr. Autrey rolled with the 19 year old man into a drainage trough between the rails as the southbound No. 1 train came into the 137th Street/City College station. Train cars passed safely over Autrey and the young man with only a couple of inches to spare. As a congratulatory gesture, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave him the Bronze Medallion , the city's highest award for civic achievement. Scholarships were offered to his daughters, and cash gifts were presented.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. -- John D. Rockefeller III

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. -- Isaac Newton

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. -- Charles Kingsley

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- A.W. Pinero

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution. – Michael J Fox, On CBS News with Katie Couric 10/26/06

"And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away.  But you got to.  And, when you do, it changes your life." -- David Hasselhoff

"When you start violating your standards quicker than you can lower them, then it's time to go away." -- Robin Williams

"Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard.  But you can't work hard enough for two people." -- Stephanie Klein

Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. -- Edward R. Lyman

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. -- George MacDonald

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. -- James A. Garfield

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. -- William Dean Howells

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. -- Frank McCourt

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. -- Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), BBC television interview, November 20, 1995.

Two is company. Three is fifty bucks. -- Joan Rivers

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. -- Mark Twain

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. -- Tallulah Bankhead

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
-- Harry S. Truman

"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." -- John Fletcher

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime. -- Charles Barkley

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -- Howard Aiken

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." -- Russell Green

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker." --Chuang Tzu

I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know its happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something, but you’re not sure what it is.

-- Robert McCammon                

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein

“A funny thing happened on the way to the electronic revolution: we all ended up sitting at desks and working at computer terminals, with wrist pain, sore necks and backs, and stiff joints. Now high tech can be a lot healthier. These simple stretching routines — to be performed while sitting at a desk, standing at the copier, or talking on the phone — improve circulation, relieve stress, and soothe sore muscles. No equipment necessary!” -- Bob Anderson

"When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow. In math and science, our fourth graders are among the top students in the world. By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a population with a college degree is important, but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In the international competition to have the biggest and best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling behind." -- Thomas Friedman

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." -- Bill Cosby

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities. -- Dalai Lama

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." -- Walter Karp

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. -- William Feather

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. -- Mark Hopkins

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. -- W. H. Auden

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