The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
 

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
-- Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
 

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2003
 

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
-- Og Mandino

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
-- Martha Graham
 

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
-- Evelyn Underhill
 

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
-- Minor White

Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Israel Salanter

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra, physicist

You have to be careful who you let define your good.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Dennis Miller