I have spread my dreams under your feet.

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.

W. B. YEATS

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

--ELVIS PRESLEY

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

--WOODY ALLEN

If music be the food of love, play on.

--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

--RAY BRADBURY

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

--ARISTOTLE

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

--HANK AARON

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

There's also a negative side.


--HUNTER S. THOMPSON

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

--HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

--E. B. WHITE

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

--ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.


--ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

--MAHATMA GANDHI

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

--GEORGE SANTAYANA

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

--GREG EVANS

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

--H. L. MENCKEN

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

--GEORGE BURNS

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--BILL COSBY

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

--LAURENCE J. PETER

What worries you masters you.

--HADDON W. ROBINSON

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!

--MARGARET MEAD

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

--ROBERT FROST

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

--LEO TOLSTOY

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

--BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

--MARYON PEARSON

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.

--BHAGAVAD GITA

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

--BABYLONIAN TALMUD

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

--GEORGE SANTAYANA

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

--GORDON LIDDY

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

--ANNA PAVLOVA

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

--LOUIS HECTOR BERLOIZ

I'm not afraid of dying.

I just don't want to be there when it happens.

--WOODY ALLEN

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

--ANAIS NIN

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

This sanctuary is a simple awareness of comfort, which can't be violated by the turmoil of events.

This place feels no trauma and stores no hurt.

It is the healing mental space that one seeks to find in meditation.

--HERMANN HESSE

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

--MILTON BERLE

A man's reach should exceed his grasp...or what's a heaven for?

--ROBERT BROWNING

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

--BILLIE JEAN KING

If we did all we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

--THOMAS EDISON

Life is change. Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

--KAREN KAISER CLARK

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

--JAMES BALDWIN

In the name of God, stop a moment, close your work, and look around you.

--LEO TOLSTOY

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

--UNKNOWN