"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise." -William Blake
"Education...has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." -G. M. Trevelyan
"Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else." -the Apostle Paul (Galatians 6:4)
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage." -Smashing Pumpkins
"I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts." -Julius Ceaser, Act 3 Scene 2
"I struck for my country and that alone." -John Wilkes Booth (April 21, 1865)
"They're so polite indeed--when I've got everything I need." -Red Hot Chilli Peppers
"Few men are so obstinate in their atheism that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgment of a divine power." -PLATO (C. 428-348 B.C.)
"Why is it that when we help others help themselves we feel so...helpless?" -Melissa Joan Hart as "Clarissa" (Clarissa Explains It All)
"In any good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears." -Edith Wharton
"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." -anonymous
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
"Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible." -C.S. Lewis, "Reflections on the Psalms"
"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." -Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." -James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic goverment to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." -Frank Herbert
"Trust no one." -Dave Navarro
"Revco Pharmacy was kind of like your typical friend. They claim to be 'a friend for life,' but are easily bought out by others [CVS] who look to be beneficial to them. I guess they are friends for life--until someone else's looks more profitable." -me
"If I had a single flower for everytime I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden." -Claudia A. Grandi
"Remaining friends remind me, as they say it's up to you, the things you throw away." -John Popper, Blues Traveler
"Love is." -anonymous
"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing it well." -unknown
"Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?" -C.S. Lewis, "Letters to Malcolm"
"What is wrong today won't be right tomorrow." -Dutch proverb
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." -DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." -Voltaire
"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." -David Borenstein
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." -Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
"I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time." -Charlie Brown
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." -Johanne von Goethe
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." -George Elliot (The Mill on the Floss)
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." -Sir Wiston Churchill (Nov. 11, 1937)
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." -Walter Kerr
"If it wasn't for your misfortunes, I'd be a heavenly person today." -Orgy ("Blue Monday")
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." -Pablo Nerudo
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Frank Herbert
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." -Bertrand Russel
"You like attention, it's proof to you you're alive." -Deftones ("Elite")
"Were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what he is in himself without regard to any other. To believe in him add nothing to his perfections; to doubt him takes nothing away." -A. W. TOZER (1897-1963)