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Welcome to my Homepage! .......................:-] :-) 8-) :) :> B-)........ "If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius _____ "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." -Aristotle _____ "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" _____ "We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy _____ "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy _____ "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." -Martin Luther King, Jr. _____ "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr. _____ "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from the Birrmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 _____ "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." -Franklin D. Roosevelt _____ "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt _____ "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ "All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher." -Socrates _____ "The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates _____ "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates _____ "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -Alexander Hamilton _____ "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." -Lao-Tzu _____ "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb _____ "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi _____ Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden _____ "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha _____ "Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." -John MacNaughton _____ "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" -Sir Walter Scott, Marmion _____ "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich - simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller _____ "He that knows not and knows that he knows not is a child, teach him. He that knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him. He that knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, wake him. He that knows and knows that he knows is a teacher, follow him." - Persian Proverb _____ "The greatest thing in life is love and the second is laughter." - G.Y. Morgan _____ "It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." - Thornton Wilder _____ "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential cause of Rome's decline lay in her people, her horals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars...Rome was not destroyed by Christianity, any more than by barbarian invasion; it was an empty shell when Christianity arose to influence and invasion came." - Will and Ariel Durant _____ "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell _____ "Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney _____ "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour _____ "One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt _____ "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius, on Learning _____ "I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." - Sir Laurence Olivier _____ "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung _____ "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell _____ "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein _____ "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi _____ "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." - Wendell Johnson _____ "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln _____ "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." - Lord Thomas Dewar _____ "Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama _____ "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred Witte Struven _____ "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill _____ "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman _____ "There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - Carl Jung _____ "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton _____ "Money is like sea-water: The more we drink the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame." - Schopenhauer _____ "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi _____ "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James _____ "Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' " - George Bernard Shaw _____ "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer _____ "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin _____