Favorite Quotations

"Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them."
      - Leo Rosten

"All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy."
      - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
      - Dave Barry

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
      - Mark Twain

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
      - George Bernard Shaw

"The future isn't what it used to be."
      - Yogi Berra

"One of the greatest impediments to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."
       - Unknown

"The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden."
       - Ray D. Everson

"Interruptions are the spice of life."
       - George Washington

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
       - Albert Einstein

"Learn by doing."
       - John Dewey (this is also the motto of my alma mater, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo)

"That which does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
       - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fouth tries."
       - James Michener

"You can observe a lot by just watching."
       - Yogi Berra

"It is impossible to make significant change by force. The only way to make significant change is to make the thing you want to change obsolete."
       - R. Buckminster Fuller

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
       - Winston Churchill

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
       - Benjamin Franklin

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
       - Mark Twain

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
       - Albert Einstein

"The verdict you pronounce upon the source of you livelihood is the verdict you pronounce on your life."
       - Ayn Rand

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
       - Winston Churchill

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
       - Benjamin Franklin

"Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one."
       - Albert Einstein

"We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!."
       - Benjamin Franklin

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
       - Mark Twain

"Sight is a faculty; Seeing is an art."
       - George Perkins Marsh

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
       - Albert Einstein

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
       - Winston Churchill

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
       - Benjamin Franklin

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
       - Alan Alda

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
       - Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
       - Oscar Wilde

"Every wall is a door."
       - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In combat, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Otherwise, you die."
       - 1st Sgt. Dan Brown