The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980) The young know how truly difficult and dr...

Ive always believed in writing without a collaborator1, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties2. Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) I always wrote with the idea that...

Do not anticipate1 trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Thats the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown What worri...

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each da...

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Old Man and Death Dreams are wishes your heart makes. American Proverb Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to...

Wisdom doesnt automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. Its true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978 The whole problem with the world is...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible1 summer. Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not...

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth Barometer1, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce...

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) An unhurried sense of time is in itself a fo...

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Fle...