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- When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.
- Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
- War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
- Colton
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- Dryden
- There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh
- There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William Bennett
- The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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