The following quotes are copyrighted by Alan D. Kosinski.  Permission is granted to reproduce them so long as the following acknowledgement is credited after each one.

Many of you who have received my newsletter for the last twenty or so years have enjoyed the different quotes that were on the back cover. The following are some of my favorites listed alphabetically:

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde.

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” - Rita Mae Brown (American Author).

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” - C.S. Lewis

“A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.” - Mark Twain.

“A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake.

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.” - Alexandre Dumas fils.

“All great truths begins as blasphemies.” - Bernard Shaw.

“All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle

“All that we are, are the result of what we have thought.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

“Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” - Oscar Wilde.

“An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.” - Mahatma Gandhi.

“An opinion is not necessarily correct because someone is willing to die for it.” - Oscar Wilde.

“Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.” - Aristotle.

“Arrogance leads to failure.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

“At the end of the day, think not on the harvest that you reaped, but the seeds that you sowed.” - Robert Louis Stephenson.

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” - Chinese Proverb.

“Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.” - Kathleen Norris.

“Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, Former First Lady).

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important thatn fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon.

"Do not go where the path may lead...go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.” - Yoda (Fictional Character 'The Empire Strikes Back').

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small
jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care
of themselves.” - Dale Carnegie.

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden.

“Drillers shape holes, bow makers arrows, carpenters shape wood and the wise shape him self.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

"Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away...just for this time in my life. Old age is like a bank account...you withdraw from it what you've put in." - Author Unknown.

“Educate the children so you won't have to punish men.” - Pitagoras.

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.” Richard Whately.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl.

‘Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” - Aldous Huxley.

“Exuberance is beauty” - William Blake.

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt.

“Formal Education will make you a living; Self education will make you a fortune.” - Jim Rohn.

“Freedom ends when we begin to deprive others of freedom.” -Unknown.

“Get Rich … getting rich is the best thing you can do for the poor.” - Wallace Wattles.

"Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke (reference to Smash Mouth’s song “All Star”).

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are
essential to really keep us alive.” - Robert Schuller (American Minister and Author).

“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.” - Author Unknown.

“God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.” - Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886.

“Good Morning, This Is God!: I will be Handling all Your Problems Today. I Will Not Need Your Help -- So Have a Good Day. I Love You! - Joyce Meyer (Book title).

“Good timber does not grow under comfortable circumstances, the stronger the wind, the stronger the tree.” - J. Willard Marriott.

“Great men's success should always be measured against the means they used to reached it.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein.

“Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.” – Harvey Mackay

“He that knows nothing doubts nothing.” - George Herbert.

“He who excuses himself accuses himself.” - Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des sentences.

“He who laughs, lasts!” - Mary Pettibone Poole.

“Help others, but when you do that, do not forget yourself.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” - Marilyn Monroe.

“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” - Sylvester Stallone.

“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” - Abraham Maslow.

“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.” – Voltaire.

“I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere! - Jean Favre.

“I don't believe in Miracles. I rely on them.” - Author Unknown.

“I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.” – John Taylor Gatto (New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions.).

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain.

“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.” - Albert Einstein.

“I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.” - Thomas Edison.

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” - Noel Coward.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi.

“I recognize that winning is not everything but the effort to win is!” - Knute Rockne (paraphrased).

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.” - Samuel Goldwyn.

“I view my life in a way ... I'll explain it to you, OK?” he told his small audience in Florida. “The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be better as a golfer, I will be better as a person, I will be better as a father, I will be a better husband, I will be better as a friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow. There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.” - Tiger Woods.

“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.” - Charley Reese.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” - Henry David Thoreau.

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” - Seneca.

“If you can't change your circumstances, change your attitude towards them.” - Dorothy Schogren (75 Years Young, Dialysis Patient).

“If you do not want anyone to know about it - don't do it.” - Chinese adage.

“If you get upset about small things, you are probably not much larger than them.” - Alf Henrikson.

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” - Mother Theresa.

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Kahlil Gibran.

“If your happiness depends on what others do you really have got a problem.” - Richard Bach.

“Ignorance is the mother of research.” - Charles F. Kettering.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein.

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'.” - Erich Fromm.

“Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift, and you use it for the good of mankind.” - Otto Octavious Fictional character Spiderman 2 (2004).

“It is better to ask and appear ignorant than to remain ignorant.” - Chinese adage.

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” - Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).

“It is impossible for one who is caught in a swamp to help another one caught.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

“It’s not enough to be the best at what you do, you must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.” - Jerry Garcia.

“It is not the monuments that teaches us history. It is the ruins.” - Carl Hammarén.

“It’s not too late…

-To forget future happiness
-To look, really look, and listen
-To reach out to those around me” - Les Brown.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” - Albert Einstein.

“Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes.” - Ron Hall.

“Knowledge is not enough, it must be used; will is not enough, we also must act.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.” - Martin H. Fischer.

“Life is not the days that have passed, but the days one remember.” - Pavlenko.

“Lift your face towards the sun - then you will not see the shadows.” - Helen Keller.

“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi.

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.” – Javan.

“Love your neighbor, but put up a fence.” - Russian adage.

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” - Charles Mingus.

“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.” - by Author Unknown.

“Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.” - Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors

“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.” – Stephen Covey

“May you live all the days of your life.” - Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift.

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” - Oscar Wilde.

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.” - Thomas Dewar.

“Most of us visualize on a daily basis, but we often do it unconsciously and in a negative fashion. It is called worrying. What happens to our bodies when we worry? We tense up, disrupt our normal breathing, and psycho-physically prepare ourselves for failure. Instead, learn to use positive visualization to prepare yourself for success. As you do you will transform the energy that supports your worrying into fuel for making your dreams come true.” - Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” - Adlai Stevenson.

“Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.” - Jesse Jackson.

“Never mistake motion for action.” - Ernest Hemingway.

“Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised.” - Robert Frost.

“No man is free who is not a master of himself.” - Epictetus.

“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca.

No one has ever said living the life of your dreams is easy.
It takes drive and determination, persistence and patience,
faith in ourselves and trust in powers greater than ourselves.
And there's always that chance that if we go for it, we
won't even make it. We could lose everything.

The greater risk, however, comes in doing nothing at all.
For then not only do we condemn our dream to certain doom,
we condemn ourselves to spending the rest of our lives thinking
of what we might have done.
~ from "The Sequoia Seed by Karen Wright.

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“Not even the angels stand higher than the man who took the wrong way and then returned.” - The Talmud.

“Not failure, but low aim is a crime.” - James Russell Lowell.

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” - W.T. Purkiser.

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, Third American President).

“Nothing is more dangerous than an opinion if that is the only one you got.” - Emile Chartier.

“Nothing just happens.” - T.D. Jakes.

“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.” - Samuel Johnson.

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein.

“Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.” - William Arthur Ward.

“Originality is going back to origins.” - Antoni Gaudí.

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Oliver Goldsmith.

“Our position determines what we see.” - Ylva Eggehorn.

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln.

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” – Harvey Mackay

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Kierkegaard.

“People fear what they do not understand.” - Bruce Lee.

“Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die." - Gary Hirshberg.

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” - Confucius.

“Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” - Napoleon Bonaparte.

“See what you want – then get the obstacles out of the way! There are NO limits!” - Liz Murray.

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” - Mort Walker.

“Small things affects small minds.” - Benjamin Disraeli.

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” - Sir Winston Churchill.

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.” – Barbara Sher

“Speak in anger and you will hold the best speech you ever regretted.” - Winston Churchill.

“Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment--the most priceless of human treasures--are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen--who make *good* things happen--in the world around them.´- Joe Klock

“Talk doesn't cook rice.” - Chinese proverb.

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” - Euripides.

“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve.

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” - William James.

“The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.” - Albert Ellis.

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” - B.B. King.

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“The best preparation for a better life tomorrow, is to make the most out of what you have today!" - Bob Proctor.

“The best proof of love is trust.” - Joyce Brothers.

“The best times of your life have not yet been lived.” - Alan’s Fortune Cookie 02/08.

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” - Mark Twain.

“The best way to get something done is to begin.” - Author Unknown.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan’s Fortune Cookie 06/07.

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” - H.G. Wells.

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.” - Nolan Bushnell.

“The depth of your past is the indication of the height of your future.” - T.D. Jakes.

“The difference between success and failure is much smaller than most people might suspect. And that small difference can often be traced to a subtle deal-making nuance that can change the course of an entire industry.” - Robert Ringer.

“The earth you cannot change. Calm your violent soul. All you can do is another person good.” - Stig Dagerman.

“The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we
must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” - Robert Cushing.

“The first duty of love - is to listen.” - Paul Tillich.

“The foolish never learn from their own mistakes; the wise learn from the mistakes of others.” -African Proverb.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” - Benjamin Disraeli.

“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.” - Wallace Wattles.

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” - E.E. Cummings.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler.

“The important thing is never to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” - Lao-Tse.

“The man that conquers him self is superior to the one who conquers a thousand men in a battle.” - The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.” – Goethe.

“The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments.” - Chinese adage.

“The ones who got most out of life is not those who have lived a whole century, but those who have lived every minute.” - Colette.

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” - John E. Southard.

“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” - Jules Renard.

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” - Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall.

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates.

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke.

“The only way to get a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“The person who isn't interested in his fellow beings has the greatest difficulties in life and also creates the greatest damage to others.” - Alfred Adler.

“The road to a friend's house is never long.” - Danish proverb.

“The solution for your life is in the problems you solve.” - Common Sense Approach for Life Ministry.

“The spirit of the speaker will determine the spirit of the audience.” - Roger Ailes.

“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.” - Victor Hugo.

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” - W. M. Lewis.

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, NFL Hall of Fame Coach).

“There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” - Colin Powell (Former US Secretary of State).

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy.

“There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.” -Author Unknown.

“There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.” - Nietzche.

"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet).

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” - Douglas MacArthur.

“They must find it difficult...Those who have taken the authority as the truth, rather than the truth as the authority.” - Gerald Massey.

“Bear” Bryant was one of the most successful sports coaches ever. When he died, the
following was found in his wallet:

This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever.
Leaving something in its place I have traded for it.
I want it to be a gain, not loss - good, not evil.
Success, not failure in order that I shall not forget the price I paid for it.
~ Author, unknown.

“THINK” - Thomas J. Watson (IBM founder).

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” - Doris Lessing.

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832).

“Those who wander astray, new paths find, of which others later will benefit to know.” - Gustav Fröding.

“To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.” - Sigmund Freud.

“To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.” - Author Unknown.

“To live means to continually solve problems. The fuller a life is, the more complex the problems are that must be resolved.” - Ichak Adizes as stated in his book ‘Corporate Lifecycles’.

“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage,” - Henri Matisse.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” - Chuck Palahniuk (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961).

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle.

“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.” - Gary Collins.

“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." - Les Brown.

“Wealth is not in making money, but in making the (wo)man while (s)he is making money.” -John Wicker.

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass!” - Paul J. Meyer.

“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” - J. Sidlow Baxter.

“What other people do or say is their stuff; how we react is our stuff.” - Phil Evans.

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine (English author, d.1851).

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” - Confucius.

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Dr. Wayne Dyer.

“Whether or not we realize it each of us has a special gift inside us just waiting to surface!...We owe developing these gifts not only to ourselves, but those around us as well... The important thing here is not what your gift is as much as that you develop it so that you can share it with those around you and in the process further your own personal life!... Once we have identified our special talents it doesn't matter whether or not we find immediate success in them, what does matter is that we take a step each day towards our intended goal!” – Josh Hinds.

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” - Plato.

“Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” - William Wordsworth.

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” - Sophocles.

“With knowledge doubt increases.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” - Frank Zappa.

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” - Robert Assaglioli.

“Without friends, no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods.” - Aristotle.

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.” - Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” - Martin Luther.

“You are the best I got, since nothing hurts like you.” - Karin Boye.

“You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.” – Galileo.

“You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” - Bonnie Prudden.

No list of wonderful meaningful quotes would be complete without listing many from The Bible, and of course our Savoir Jesus Christ. If I were to list all the meaningful quotes here I would be simply copying most of The Bible. I suggest you get a copy of this great book and read it cover to cover. You will find so many different quotes and bits of knowledge & wisdom, especially in the book of Proverbs. There are many versions and I would suggest any copy of the NIV (New International Version). This is a more contemporary writing that is easily understood by most people.

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Here are some pearls of wit and wisdom from the great Will Rogers:

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Don't squat with your spurs on.

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I found the following collection several years ago and I think that if you have read my favorite quotes this far, you will enjoy this list of Albert Einstien’s quotes even though several were on the above list.

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)