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- It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
- George Sand (1804 - 1876)
- [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
- The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
- John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
- To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- [Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
- I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin
- The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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