"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist,...
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have." Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951) "Good music is very close to primitive...
"I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit." Susan Glasee "Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good...
"When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains." Anonymous "A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept...
"One of the strongest motives that lead to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness." Albert Einstein ...
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." Henry Boye "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see ...
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" Albert Einstein "In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass...
"Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives."...
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your...
"The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it." Albert Einstein "A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside...
"The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor." Unknown "The end of all method is to seem to have no method." Lu Ch'Ai "Age gives...
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." C. G. Jung "The days come...
"I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. . . . I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species....
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do." John Muir,...
"Time wears away error and polishes truth." Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830) "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." John Cotton...
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." Max Eastman "Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the...
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "God created...
"A single drop of rain makes the grass many shades greener." Henry David Thoreau "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...
"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends." Unknown "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." Chinese proverb "One...
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation." Mark Twain "Misuse or neglect the senses only at grave...
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a...
"The best thing about music is that when it hits, you feel no pain." Bob Marley "Your world is as big as you make it." Georgia Douglas Johnson "We have just...
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." Martha Grimes "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." Lady Bird Johnson "Too...
"More than anything trees are metaphors. Firmly rooted, genuinely patient and content, willing to undergo insult and humiliation, they also open themselves to...
"The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump." French proverb "What comes from the heart, goes to the heart." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English poet &...
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." Thomas Henry...
"Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens" Jimi Hendrix "A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the...
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." Shirley MacLaine "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." Jonathan Winters "The...
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." Wernher von Braun "The leadership...
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." Robert Frost US poet (1874 - 1963 "Autumn is a...