This only is denied to God: the power to undo1 the past. Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics2 At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice3. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1...

A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at som...

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if its a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) The great art of giving consists in this: th...

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sa...

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC...

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 Freedom is just Chaos1, with better lighting2. Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point Ever...

Calamities1 are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devils Dictionary We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and n...

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott, If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules If you havent forgiven yourself som...

Its amazing how pervasive1 food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you cant go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on b...

Fishing is a delusion1 entirely2 surrounded by liars3 in old clothes. Don Marquis (1878 - 1937) If people concentrated on the really important things in life, thered be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson Many go fishing without knowin...