I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and

intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo

Man – a being in search of meaning. –Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. – Plato

Love is a serious mental disease. – Plato

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on
which it is poured. – Seneca

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. –

Seneca

Time discovers truth. – Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous
and his content flimsy. – Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Seneca

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show
disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders
enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and
tyrannize their teachers."
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those
which he has. – Epictetus

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. – Newton

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. –Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. –Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. –Einstein

Someone asked Sophocles: "How is your sex-life now? Are you still able to have a woman?" His
reply:
"Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and
savage master."

Hell is not punishment, it’s training. -Shunryu Suzuki

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. -Pericles

Take care to get what you like, or you’ll be forced to like what you get.

If you are going through hell, keep going. –Winston Churchill

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Student in Miles' eighth-grade English class (reading from John Knowles' "A Separate Peace"):
"I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being
lowered into his family's straitlaced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape the
feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case."

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

We do not thrive in comfort.

"Heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel.
Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him.
That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But, doctor...I am Pagliacci." Good joke.
Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black." - Rorschach

Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammad Ali

Don’t compare your behind-the-scenes to other people’s highlight reel.

Tough times never last. Tough people do.

Point a finger and there are three pointing back.

There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says,
"How wonderful. The boy got a horse."
And the Zen master says, "We’ll see."
Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says,
"How terrible."
And the Zen master says, "We'll see."
Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy because
of his leg and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."
Zen master says, "We'll see."

Any argument carried far enough will end up in semantics.

Humor is logic gone wrong.

Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from and where it’s going.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Bukowski

Politicians are always one law away from nirvana.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write nonfiction everyone tries to prove that it’s
wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
– Scarlet Thomas

Eventually all gravy trains come into the station.

Cleavage is the only thing that you can look down on and approve of at the same time.

I like not being happy. Keeps me sharp. On the edge. Where I gotta be.

Being a lawyer in Russia is like being a dentist in England.

Just a strand of DNA tossed in the wind.

If you have a wet dream, your underwear becomes a dream catcher.

Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap.

Pride aside

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

You can’t unring a bell.

Where there is difficulty lies opportunity.

Einstein

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The glass is half-full of shit.

The only Jew I know with a set of tools is my dentist.

The faintest ink is better than the best memory.

Spiders are the only web developers who are happy when they find bugs.

Avoid analysis paralysis.

Pride goes before a fall.

Worry about the things you can control.

Love is nature’s way of tricking you into making babies.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.

One of the greatest problems with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.

I took the road less travelled. I got mugged.

The devil is in the details.

Canada is a great place to live. The only thing missing is its indigenous women.

When there’s enough evidence for a conspiracy we just call it the news.

Never assume you are above the influence of advertising and propaganda.

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
- Lilly Tomlin

Nothing good comes from a panicked response.

The emptiest barrels make the most noise when you bang on them.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

If you ask you are a fool for five minutes. If you never ask you are a fool forever.

If you want to live the American dream move to Sweden

It’s a cold day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle and streets are deserted. Times
are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A traveler comes to town and lays a $100 bill on the hotel desk saying he wants to inspect the
rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the hotel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to
the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also
been facing hard times and has had to offer her “services” on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect
anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory,
picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything….

However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more
optimism.

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

It is better to find a mechanical issue before the plane takes off.

You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Yoga was invented in India because Indians were used to bending over backwards for the
British.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The pain of discipline weights ounces. The pain of regret weights tonnes.

You can’t make a baby in one month by working nine times as hard.
Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.

The golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Newton

The Bible teaches you the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo

Peace of mind over piece of ass