*walters' words of wisdom*

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --Groucho Marx



"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." --Joan Baez



"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." --Arthur Ashe



"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi



"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." --Robert F. Kennedy



"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." --Victor Borge



"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung



"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." --James Oppenheim



"The grace of God means something like: here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too." --Frederick Buechner



"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." --Leigh Hunt



"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." --Scott Adams



"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." --Jorge Luis Borges



"Some days, even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help." --Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"



"To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying its best night and day to make you everybody else is the hardest battle any human being will ever fight." --e.e. cummings



"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason." --Wayne Dyer



"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



"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." --Raner Maria Rilke



"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." --Albert Schweitzer



"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." --Albert Einstein



"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." --Mark Twain



"He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." --Danish Proverb



"Not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." --Thomas Paine



"The foolish and the dead never change their opinion." --James Russell Lowell



"The aim of education should be to teach a child to think, not what to think." --John Dewey



"Don't find fault; find a remedy." --Henry Ford



"It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." --Ben Franklin



"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." --Walter Lippman



"Well done is better than well said." --Ben Franklin



"All men are guilty of all the good they didn't do." --Voltaire



"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." --Mark Twain



"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." --John Locke



"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help." --John F. Kennedy



"Make yourself necessary to somebody." --Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Each man's affairs, however little, are important to himself." --Samuel Johnson



"When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." --African Proverb



"Who lies for you will lie against you." --Bosnian Proverb



"Truth will be truth - regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance." --W.C. Stone



"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." --R. Walpole



"Everyone must row with the oars he has." --English Proverb



"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." --Adlai Stevenson



"I believe that every right implies a responsibility." --John D. Rockefeller



"You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy." --Carol Burnett



"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." --Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." --Emily Kimbrough



"It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship. As i approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset." --Erynn Miller



"Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." --Anonymous



"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe." --Augustine



"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse." --Woody Allen



"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." --Cary Grant



"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." --Andre Gide



"One may have a blazing hearth in one's heart, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way." --Vincent Van Gogh



"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." --Lucille S. Harper



"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." --Nelson Mandela



"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." --Ziggy



"Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained." --John Powell



"He who laughs last didn't get it." --Helen Giangregorio



"Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying." --Harry Anderson



"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And i'm not so sure about the former." --Albert Einstein



"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance." --Edward Flaherty



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



"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark." --Lord John Whorlin



"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." --Carol Burnett



"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 make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill



"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." --Anonymous



"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." --Ben Franklin



"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." --Anonymous English Professor, Ohio University



"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." --E.B. White



"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." --T.S. Eliot



"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." --Mark Twain



"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." --Mark Twain



"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again." --Bart Simpson



"I write songs because I have to. I can't really stop. If I could I might have, but that doesn't matter. It's who I am and it comes out of me like breathing." --Adam Duritz



"We are not separate from spirit, we are in it." --Plotinus



"Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built." --James Allen



"The foundation of knowledge must be laid by reading." --Samuel Johnson