Nothing we do changes the past. Everything we do changes the future.
-- Sister Joan Chittister

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then is an empty desk?
— Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
--Albert Einstein

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
-- Albert Einstein

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
-- Albert Einstein

Many men die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
-- Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Beware the man who is not moved by sound.
-- Anonymous

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
-- Johann von Goethe

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley (author & journalist, 1890-1957)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- William Morrow

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
-- Helen Keller

This above all, to thine own self be true.
-- William Shakespeare

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
-- F. Hawes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for thehate ful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968; Nobel Prize winner 1964)

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
-- Euripedes

I have this fantasy that at some big corporate sporting event they'll have a reading of the Bill of Rights instead of Celine Dion butchering a song while zombified backing singers smile like poster children for Xanax.
-- Moby

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.
-- Ghandi

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles Du Bos

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-- Joseph Campbell

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
-- E. Merrill Root

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
-- Max Beerbohm

You have to have the presence of mind to be aware of an opportunity, the balls to take the opportunity that is presented, and the talent to back up the balls when the opportunity bears fruit.
-- Amber Benson